file link with smae name

manojg · 11-04-2005, 10:01 AM

Hi,

I am trying to link a file with same name. For an example:

ln -s /home/john/data/abc.dat /home/john/data/abc.dat

Here the file abc.dat to be linked is in the directory /home/john/data/ . I want to put the linked file name /home/john/data/abc.dat in the directory /home/bartha/data/
I am working from the directory /home/bartha/data/.

I tried but linux does not allowed to put the name of the linked file with / or with directory name. Is there any trick?

Thanks.

makuyl · 11-04-2005, 10:16 AM

If you're in /home/bartha/data/ you can just do: ln -s /home/john/data/abc.dat .
where "." at the end means the current dir

Hmm, you realise of course that bartha would need read access to johns home. Not a good solution. Instead put the file somewhere outside of /home

manojg · 11-04-2005, 10:31 AM

sorry, I forgot to mension that there is read permision. I have given bartha just as an example.

Actually, I am doing some analysis of the data. The data are on the NFS disk which can be accessed. I want to creat the link of those data files to my home directory. Also, I want to give the complete name of the data file (including directories) as the name of the linked file so that I can find out which data file I am using.

sundaraz · 11-04-2005, 12:49 PM

I don't think its possible to have '/' as part of the filename.

makuyl · 11-04-2005, 02:37 PM

I seem to have misunderstood the question, also I don't know of a way to accomplish that. A weirdish workaround would be:
ln -s /home/john/data/abc.dat /home/bartha/data/home_john_data_abc.dat