Hey guys, not sure if this is even possible but what I am trying to do is create a link to my folder called "notes" it is located in /cygdrive/c/users/user001/notes

my cygwin standard path is /home/user001.

the command that I am doing to make a sym link to that folder is ln -s notes /home/user001

I see the sym link there notes --> notes

however, I can not directly CD into the link. Is this possible? or even grep into the link? So, while I am at my home directory, i see the sym link notes. so I would like to # grep -r [value] notes

Never mind =) i had to specify the entire path. I though being at the specified directory, it would pick up the actual link w/o it having to write the entire absolute path

so I actually had to do the entire comand

#ln -s /cygdrive/c/Users/user001/Desktop/notes /home/user001
#cd
#ls -l notes --> /cygdrive/c/Users/user001/Desktop/notes /home/user001
#cd notes

and it picks it up just fine!

Symbolic links will go exactly where you tell it, it won't try to parse out the location of the destination and modify it so it works from the source. If you give it a relative path, it needs to be a relative path from the final location of the symlink, not a relative path from your current directory.