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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2009-08-26 10:00:38 -0500 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-05-31 22:41:17 +0200 |
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Slackware 13.0slackware-13.0
Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009
Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable! Thanks to everyone who
helped make this release possible -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for the
credits. The ISOs are off to the replicator. This time it will be a
6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.
We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com. Please consider
picking up a copy to help support the project. Once again, thanks to
the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing
things and offering suggestions during this development cycle.
As always, have fun and enjoy! -P.
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diff --git a/slackbook/html/file-commands-link.html b/slackbook/html/file-commands-link.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8a3784fa7 --- /dev/null +++ b/slackbook/html/file-commands-link.html @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> +<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" /> +<title>Aliasing files with ln</title> +<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7" /> +<link rel="HOME" title="Slackware Linux Essentials" href="index.html" /> +<link rel="UP" title="Handling Files and Directories" href="file-commands.html" /> +<link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Deletion: rm and rmdir" href="file-commands-deletion.html" /> +<link rel="NEXT" title="Process Control" href="process-control.html" /> +<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> +</head> +<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" +alink="#0000FF"> +<div class="NAVHEADER"> +<table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<th colspan="3" align="center">Slackware Linux Essentials</th> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="file-commands-deletion.html" +accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 10 Handling Files and +Directories</td> +<td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="process-control.html" +accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +</div> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="FILE-COMMANDS-LINK" name="FILE-COMMANDS-LINK">10.7 Aliasing +files with <tt class="COMMAND">ln</tt></a></h1> + +<p><tt class="COMMAND">ln</tt>(1) is used to create links between files. These links can +be either hard links or soft (symbolic) links. The differences between the two kinds of +links were discussed in <a href="filesystem-structure-links.html">Section 9.3</a>. If you +wanted to make a symbolic link to the directory <tt class="FILENAME">/var/media/mp3</tt> +and place the link in your home directory, you would do this:</p> + +<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> +<tr> +<td> +<pre class="SCREEN"> +<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">ln -s /var/media/mp3 ~/mp3</kbd> +</pre> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>The <var class="OPTION">-s</var> option tells <tt class="COMMAND">ln</tt> to make a +symbolic link. The next option is the target of the link, and the final option is what to +call the link. In this case, it will just make a file called <tt +class="FILENAME">mp3</tt> in your home directory that points to <tt +class="FILENAME">/var/media/mp3</tt>. You can call the link itself whatever you want by +just changing the last option.</p> + +<p>Making a hard link is just as simple. All you have to do is leave off the <var +class="OPTION">-s</var> option. Hard links may not normally refer to directories or span +file systems, however. To create a hard link <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/bin/email</tt> to +<tt class="FILENAME">/usr/bin/mutt</tt>, simply type the following:</p> + +<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> +<tr> +<td> +<pre class="SCREEN"> +<samp class="PROMPT">#</samp> <kbd +class="USERINPUT">ln /usr/bin/mutt /usr/bin/email</kbd> +</pre> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> + +<div class="NAVFOOTER"> +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +<table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="file-commands-deletion.html" +accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html" +accesskey="H">Home</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="process-control.html" +accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Deletion: <tt class="COMMAND">rm</tt> and <tt +class="COMMAND">rmdir</tt></td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="file-commands.html" +accesskey="U">Up</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Process Control</td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> +</body> +</html> + |