symlink Questions

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I have a USB GPIO device with some 3rd party drivers that I want to interface with in a container. Compiles, works fine on host. Also compiles, works fine in the container if I pass --device=/dev/b...
Countrywoman asked 19/12, 2018 at 14:58

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Related: single node_modules folder for multiple projects If npm install -g everything is not recommended, and I do not want to link individual modules, can I possibly symlink <some project>...
Valorize asked 27/3, 2016 at 1:7

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I've ran into an issue wherein Git believes that a file is beyond a symbolic link, and that, thus, it cannot be version controlled, but it appears to be a real file. [root@r1 h]# stat -f conf/core...
Ungrudging asked 9/2, 2013 at 1:11

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The symlink support is still not officially available in react-native https://github.com/facebook/metro/issues/1. It's actually possible to use symlinks in the package.json with npm (not yarn) ...
Calli asked 2/5, 2019 at 13:27

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In Git bash i have run the following: ln -s "//server/path/Resource/" test When I check if it's worked: ls -l It appears as a folder rather than a symlink. I am using windows and trying to cr...
Heidt asked 12/12, 2018 at 16:6

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Microsft Windows Terminal (installed via the Microsoft Store) creates a 0 bytes wt.exe file which is a Windows execution alias. AFAIK it is somthing similar to a symbolic link, except it seems to b...
Lepine asked 19/6, 2020 at 15:55

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I use WSL almost exclusively, and only switch to main windows for browsing and running Windows native programs. I have a git repository located at /mnt/c/myrepo. In order to "install" the code insi...
Reeve asked 20/8, 2019 at 19:31

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I have mounted the static directory in my FastAPI app using the following code: from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles app = FastAPI( title="Title of the Application", description...
Abramson asked 10/1, 2022 at 12:49

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I am running os.walk() on "C:\Users\confusedDev\Documents", I see ["My Music", "My Pictures"...] returned as subDirs but they are not actually being visited. After some research I found that they a...
Antithesis asked 24/11, 2017 at 9:12

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Yet another Docker symlink question. I have a bunch of files that I want to copy over to all my Docker builds. My dir structure is: parent_dir - common_files - file.txt - dir1 - Dockerfile -...
Flatboat asked 7/8, 2015 at 15:51

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For convenience, I have had to move my README file (in this case README.htm) to my own directory and symlink it from .github folder as README.md in order it's recognized by Github. Well, even thoug...
Hortenciahortensa asked 10/2 at 13:59

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Why is it that is_regular_file function that is part of std::filesystem reports true for a symbolic link? I have looked at the documentation for the call and can't find the reason and the examples ...
Archangel asked 5/2 at 22:46

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I have a script that creates zip files of dirs containing symlinks. I was surprised to find that the zipfiles have zipped the targets of the links as opposed to the links themselves, which is what ...
Byrd asked 3/3, 2016 at 21:0

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I'm writing an (un)archiving tool and the way it is designed it first creates a regular file from the archive before it examines the special attributes and may decide that this item is a symlink, i...
Balbo asked 24/2, 2010 at 23:43

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I am having issues when removing SymbolicLinks which I have created with New-Item: New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path C:\SPI -Target "C:\Users\Chino\Dropbox (Reserve Membership)\" I n...
Pyrogallate asked 6/8, 2017 at 21:42

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Our developers use a mix of Windows and Unix-based OSes. Therefore, symbolic links created on Unix machines become a problem for Windows developers. In Windows (MSysGit), the symbolic link is conve...
Yaker asked 6/5, 2011 at 21:33

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I have the following directory structure /symdir sym1 -> ../dir1 sym2 -> ../dir2 hello.txt And then /dir1 some files here /dir2 more files I would like to replace the symlinks i...
Philippa asked 23/8, 2011 at 20:55

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I am trying to create soft links between config files containing server blocks in the sites-enabled and sites-available directories in /etc/nginx/. The command I am using is: sudo ln -s sites-ava...
Octroi asked 6/8, 2013 at 20:10

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I copy set of folders from server 1 to server 2. Amongst files I also have junction: folder with set of config files: on server 1 this junction points to... let's say c:\Config (that contains confi...
Polychrome asked 12/11, 2009 at 17:30

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I'm using Laravel Homestead (Vagrant, Ubuntu). My host computer is Windows 10 running VirtualBox. As admin (since I've already seen tons of answers that say lack of permissions is usually why peop...
Buchholz asked 18/3, 2020 at 0:20

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I run find and iterate through the results with [ \( -L $F \) ] to collect certain symbolic links. I am wondering if there is an easy way to determine if the link is broken (points to a non-exist...
Cinch asked 8/11, 2011 at 10:39

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So I'm setting up my default variables in a new MacBook M1 and for some reason, my symlink doesn't seem to work. Why is the following behaviour happening? The symlink from python to python3 g...
Hammurabi asked 6/10, 2021 at 17:58

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I have a central .gitignore on my laptop and for each project that I create, I create a symbolic link to that central file so that I can keep a uniform policy across all of my projects. All of my p...
Antimere asked 23/6, 2022 at 11:40

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I am trying to set a symlink from source to destination, but keep hitting fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "Error while ...
Hildahildagard asked 19/12, 2016 at 21:15

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I installed Virtualenv on Ubuntu 12.04 and was using it to work on a sample project under the unity desktop. I'm using VirtualBox and was having some issues with the unity desktop so changed to the...
Extravagant asked 29/6, 2012 at 15:56

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