simple ln command question

khaos83 · 01-31-2008, 02:04 AM

Simple qns for ln

I want to link/point Z folder to A folder.
At the end of the day, when I am in side Z folder, I will be inside A folder, not outside

I am able to do it in 2 ways e.g.

Code:

ln -sdf /A /Z
ln -sn /A /Z

whats the difference between the two ?
Or is there a better way to do it ?

blackhole54 · 01-31-2008, 02:54 AM

If you simply want to create a symbolic link (rather than a hard link) to folder /A, you wish to call this symbolic link /Z, and /Z does not already exist, all you need to do is:

Code:

ln -s /A /Z

If you really want to creat this in the root directory, as indicated, you will have to do this as root as nobody else has permission to write to that directory.