symlink Questions

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Windows 6 (Vista and Server 2008) support proper symbolic links, which can be created via the CreateSymbolicLink function. But there doesn't appear to be a corresponding function for interrogating ...
Altercation asked 21/10, 2008 at 10:38

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Does anyone know of a way to make/read symbolic links across versions of win32 from Python? Ideally there should be a minimum amount of platform specific code, as I need my app to be cross platform...
Milka asked 19/9, 2009 at 2:44

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Say that I set up a symbolic link: mklink /D C:\root\Public\mytextfile.txt C:\root\Public\myothertextfile.txt Editor's note: Option /D - which is for creating directory symlinks - is at odds wit...
Balsamic asked 17/4, 2012 at 9:19

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I have a source directory with several files. Some of them are symlinks to other files. I created a cscope.files file. But when I execute cscope. It complains for the files that are symlinks: csc...
Prothallus asked 8/4, 2015 at 15:16

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I'm trying to find all of the symlinks within a directory tree for my website. I know that I can use find to do this but I can't figure out how to recursively check the directories. I've tried thi...
Homologue asked 14/12, 2011 at 23:19

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Is there a way to get the target of a symbolic link using pathlib? I know that this can be done using os.readlink(). I want to create a dictionary composed by links and their target files. links ...
Uppercase asked 4/1, 2017 at 9:34

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Say I have a path to a file: /path/to/some/directory/file.ext In python, I'd like to create a symlink in the same directory as the file, that points to the file. I'd like to end up with this: /...
Pineapple asked 20/3, 2012 at 19:33

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I need to create symlinks in frameworks inside an app on OSX (vers 10.10.1). I am outside of XCode as the app is developed in Qt. It provides the frameworks, but they need some retouches to work on...
Annmaria asked 9/1, 2015 at 23:43

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Is there a way to tell using C# if a file is real or a symbolic link? I've dug through the MSDN W32 docs, and can't find anything for checking this. I'm using CreateSymbolicLink from here, and it'...
Strabismus asked 28/9, 2009 at 2:36

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I have a symlink to an important directory. I want to get rid of that symlink, while keeping the directory behind it. I tried rm and get back rm: cannot remove 'foo'. I tried rmdir and got ba...
Candancecandela asked 16/10, 2008 at 20:18

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When I create new window/pane in tmux, for example via tmux neww or keybindings prefix+c, prefix+% etc, the new pane gets working directory the same as previous pane, but with dereferenced symbolic...
Kleiman asked 3/10, 2015 at 13:27

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I have created linux (Centos) on my virtual box. When I ssh to it and I try to create symbolic link (on my shared folder with full access): ln -s path/folder/example myFolder I get error: ln: c...
Immunogenic asked 27/7, 2013 at 7:11

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Given an absolute or relative path (in a Unix-like system), I would like to determine the full path of the target after resolving any intermediate symlinks. Bonus points for also resolving ~usernam...
Giltedged asked 11/8, 2008 at 10:40

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I can use the following p-invoke code on Windows, but is there a cross-platform way to create a symbolic link with .NET Core? (3.0 preview if that matters) If not, is there a way to p-invoke or si...
Commove asked 28/8, 2019 at 13:34

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Suppose I have a subdirectory of symlinks that looks like the following: subdir/ folder/ readme.txt symlink/ => ../hidden/ hidden/ readme.txt If I run the following code: >>> fr...
Diaspore asked 2/10, 2017 at 16:31

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When I save images to storage they show in the storage/app directory, but they don't show in public/storage. I also noticed that a storage/app/public directory seems to have been created which also...
Labaw asked 29/1, 2018 at 21:59

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I have an Ubuntu 17 VM on Virtual Box, and my host OS is windows 8.1. I created a shared folder between host and guest OS. Now, because windows doesn't support symlinks, this prevents me from put...
Expert asked 26/4, 2018 at 6:24

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I have this command: ln -sf src/* lang/golang/src/genericc/ I want to symlink all the files in src to the existing genericc directory, but when I run the above command I get broken symlinks in t...
Russia asked 5/1, 2019 at 4:29

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For a given folder, how can I delete all broken links within it? I found this answer that shows how to delete one broken link, but I can't put that together in only one line. Is there a one-liner ...
Particular asked 28/2, 2014 at 13:56

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I'm trying to create a symbolic link between two directories. I have a directory called TestDocs and TestDocs2. I will be doing all my work in TestDocs, but I need it all to be reflected in TestDoc...
Spurtle asked 20/8, 2012 at 12:33

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I am trying to create symlinks using Python on Windows 8. I found This Post and this is part of my script. import os link_dst = unicode(os.path.join(style_path, album_path)) link_src = unicode(al...
Hunterhunting asked 6/11, 2014 at 19:31

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Recently I have tested to write an Android application with native code in C/C++. The problem is in making symbolic links when using the Android NDK. After some googling, some say to use Cygwin. I ...
Newtonnext asked 6/9, 2010 at 3:14

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I downloaded the linux Tor Browser package, which is a self-contained folder. I made a symlink to the run script: $ ln -s torbrowser/start-tor-browser ~/bin/torbrowser However, the link was brok...
Potsherd asked 19/7, 2013 at 2:10

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Recently I was asked this during a job interview. I was honest and said I knew how a symbolic link behaves and how to create one, but do not understand the use of a hard link and how it differs fro...
Thermodynamics asked 9/10, 2008 at 4:5

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Does any operating system provide a mechanism (system call — not command line program) to change the pathname referenced by a symbolic link (symlink) — other than by unlinking the old one and creat...
Vidicon asked 23/9, 2009 at 14:58

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