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...

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 -...

I have an original file, /path/to/foo.txt, and a symbolic link to it, /other/path/to/foo.txt. I delete /path/to/foo.txt, but leave the symbolic link in-place. How can I tell that the symbolic link ...

Supervisor is a package for Node.js that monitors files in your app directory for modifications and reloads the app when a modification occurs. This script interprets symbolic links as regular fi...

Note: using Node.js 8 I have a series of symlinks: a -> b -> c I need to resolve the initial symlink a to its target destination b. How can this be accomplished in Node.js? The fs.realpath funct...

I'm using diff to compare two huge volumes, and it is actually comparing many symlinked files over and over. Is there some way to stop this? I want it to just compare the link itself; not follow i...

I have a file path as a string. I want to: Test if there's a file there Read the contents of the file as a string the problem I'm having is that sometimes that file path involves a symbolic lin...

Finding the java binaries can be painful: which java gives /usr/bin/java lh $(which java) gives /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java lh /etc/alternatives/java gives /etc/alternatives/java -...

I have a linux directory (and don't need any windows checkout): /home/me/projects/project1 In this project, I need SVN (1.8.8) to follow a symlink "link1": /home/me/projects/project1/link1/<...

In Linux, if you have a path to a file which you know is a symlink, how do you programmatically determine (in C or C++) the path to the file that it points to?

How do I get this piece to follow symlinks in python 2.6? def load_recursive(self, path): for subdir, dirs, files in os.walk(path): for file in files: if file.endswith('.xml'): file_path = os....