Creating SHortcut/Link

Dima · February 8th, 2005, 5:33 PM

Hi

What do i type in SSH window to create a link to a folder?

Say i my folder is /home/dima/folder and link is in /etc/linkingfolder

its like www has a link to public_html

Cheers

**ghostcop** · February 8th, 2005, 6:16 PM

If you want /etc/linkingfolder to point to /home/dima/folder:

ln -s /home/dima/folder /etc/linkingfolder

Dima · February 8th, 2005, 6:37 PM

thank you soooo much!

Dima · February 8th, 2005, 6:46 PM

hmmm for some reason when i click that link it says No Such Directory

**ghostcop** · February 8th, 2005, 7:08 PM

/etc/linkingfolder will be created by the ln command, so make sure it does not exist before you run it.

Also, make sure /home/dima/folder does exist and that all your permissions are sorted out.

Dima · February 9th, 2005, 7:20 AM

yeah.. i did all that.

when i do cd linkingfolder it goes to folder fine through SSH, but when I do it through FlashFXP it shows a shortcut folder but wont let me go to it. Also.. when i go to my FTP using IE it shows the linking folder as a Linkingfolder.file

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February 8th, 2005, 7:08 PM	#5 (permalink)
ghostcop Surpass Fan On a golden path... Joined in Nov 2004 Lives in San Francisco 364 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 3 times	/etc/linkingfolder will be created by the ln command, so make sure it does not exist before you run it. Also, make sure /home/dima/folder does exist and that all your permissions are sorted out. __________________ Err the Blog ones zeros majors and minors - a tumblelog

February 9th, 2005, 7:20 AM	#6 (permalink)
Dima Registered User Seasoned Poster Joined in Sep 2004 43 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	yeah.. i did all that. when i do cd linkingfolder it goes to folder fine through SSH, but when I do it through FlashFXP it shows a shortcut folder but wont let me go to it. Also.. when i go to my FTP using IE it shows the linking folder as a Linkingfolder.file __________________

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