On unix symlinks are pointers to another file. Not only the file but also the symlink has a ctime, mtime, …. I know the symlinks time can be accessed, as ls displays it. If I use one of ruby's File...

What is the difference between test -L filename and test -h filename in ksh shell. From the man page, both were used to identify a symbolic link, but I want to know the exact difference. Here is t...

I'm working on a virtual file system which isn't disk based, kind of like /proc. Now I want to create a symlink within it to a target on a ext3 file system. I haven't found any standard documentati...

Using Python I want to create a symbolic link pointing to a path that does not exist. However os.symlink just complains about "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:".. This can easily be do...

I created a symbolic link from /www/dir2/ to /home/dir2/ I then added it to the repository ( svn add /www/dir2/ ) Now if I go into that directory, and try to do anything with svn in there I receive...

I'm looking to write a C program which, given the name of symbolic link, will print the name of the file or directory the link points to. Any suggestions on how to start?

Possible Duplicate: How to get/set logical directory path in python I have a Python script that I run from a symlinked directory, and I call os.getcwd() in it, expecting to get the sy...

I would like to change the target of symbolic link from within a bash script. The problem is that the symlink is quite important (it's /bin/sh, namely) and I would to do it in fashion that: New t...

I want to link ( ln -s ) all files that are in /mnt/usr/lib/ into /usr/lib/ There are lots of files, how can it be done quickly? :)

How can I tell unix "find" to include in it's recursive search a folder which is softlinked?

I'm trying to set up a sort of symbolic link in our subversion repository with svn:externals, but it's not really working all that well. What I want to do is link a folder in one part of the same r...

I am trying to use symbolic links in one of the applications I have running on Tomcat5. Thanks to some help from another StackOverflow question I was able to do it by creating a context.xml file ...

I have a project in Xcode and some resources for the project. The resources contain several symbolic links. When Xcode builds the project, it copies the resources, but does not resolve the symbolic...

I am looking to create symlinks (soft links) from Java on a Windows Vista/ 2008 machine. I'm happy with the idea that I need to call out to the JNI to do this. I am after help on the actual C code ...