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Sean picasso@madflower.com
Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:26:00 -0400 (EDT)


Hold on. you can't symbolically link directories with ln -s ?
I thought I had done this before..

On 8 Sep 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> "Alex Morris" <egore100@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 1.) How do I create a symbolic link?
> 
> (At least) two ways:
> 
> 	* For a single symbolic link, use "ln -si filename
>           linkname".  You can leave off the -i option if you're
>           confident you didn't screw up argument order.
> 
> 	* For making a symbolic link-based copy of an entire
>           directory tree, use "cp -rs dirname linkdirname".  My
>           version of GNU cp seems to work properly for this only
>           if "dirname" is an absolute directory name (i.e.,
>           begins with `/').
> 
> 	  (Actually you can use "cp -s" for linking single files
> 	  too.)
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