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Commandline101: Creating Symbolic Links

Mar 25, 2009  By Shawn Powers
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FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

How to create symbolic links from the command line. Making shortcuts to the files you use most can make your life easier.

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Dont forget the '-s'

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 02:26.

Make sure you enter 'ln -s ...' or else you'll make a hard link. It's very different from a symlink and probably not what you wanted.

MDF

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Submitted by waparmley on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 16:10.

Shawn, the MDF backdrop is kinda cheap looking -- you clearly need a bigger budget! Well, now that the economy has recovered* that should not be a problem.

;-)

Thanks for another great video tip.

*Don't blame me, see Shawn's blog.