Tag: symlink

Creating a symbolic in shared volume of docker and accessing it in host machine

I am creating a symbolic link in mounted volume of a host machine inside a docker. But I am unable to access it in host machine. Is it possible to do it. If yes how can I do that. I used the following command to mount directory Then I created a symbolic link using Now when I am trying to

Add the file content instead of the symbolic link to SVN repository

linux svn symlink

I created a SVN project on a Ubuntu PC and created on it a few symbolic links to files that are elsewhere, then commited it. Then I tried to checkout on a Win10 PC, and when I opened a file it had a link text instead of the file content. I had searched about it and figured that symlink “works”

How to find all symlinks to a file?

bash find linux symlink

This is my hierarchy: l1 and l2 are symlinks to a.txt. I run this code to find all symlinks to a.txt in the /aaaaaaaa: And it obviously doesn’t work, cause I must compare realpath of file with path of a.txt. In what way I should do this? Answer If you have GNU/BSD find just use -samefile primary.

Symbolic Link Edits and differences to hard link [closed]

bash git linux ln symlink

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Symbolic link difference between cp -sr and ln -s [closed]

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How to copy a folder containing absolute symlinks and preserve their relative targets

command-line linux shell symlink terminal

Suppose I have a folder: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wxcrafter containing some library files and their corresponding symlinks, e.g: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wxcrafter/lib1.so.0 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wxcrafter/lib1.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wxcrafter/lib2.so.0 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wxcrafter/lib2.so.0.0.0 I want to make a copy of wxcrafter to a new location codeblocks, preserving the relative location of the symlink targets: usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/codeblocks/lib1.so.0 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/codeblocks/lib1.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/codeblocks/lib2.so.0 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/codeblocks/lib2.so.0.0.0 How do I do this on the command line, given that there

What really happens when deleting file [closed]

hardlink inode linux symlink unix

Linux bash script symlink with spaces

bash linux ln symlink

I am trying to make a script which will find all the folders and files within a given hard drive. then i want to make the symlinks to another folder. However the ln command fails if the folder or file contains space, can someone help me to modify the ln -sf $MOVIE_FILE_LINKS -t $MOVIES_LIB command to make the folders with

Using tee command with soft linked file

linux symlink tee

I have a script start.sh which runs another script run.sh. run.sh starts my executable. I wanted to record what run.sh does and I used a tee command to log it into a file loglink, start.sh: loglink is a soft linked file. I have a logic where I have 3 log files log1.txt log2.txt log3.txt, I need each file to have

Qt5 Change Softlink of Currently Running Executable

linux qt qt5 symlink

I created 2 simple Qt5.5 test apps on Linux, “red” and “green”. I setup an initial soft link in the current directory that looks like this: I want to be able to launch the gui app at any time and have it switch the softlink to the other ‘color’ app. So when I run gui and it points to red,