Symlink
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AN!Tools :: Filesystems :: Symlink |
A symlink is a symbolic link to another point or object in a file system. In windows parlance, a symlink is an analog to a 'shortcut'.
- An example of a symlink on an ext3 file system.
digimer@akane:~/projects$ ls -lah total 472K drwxrwxr-x 27 digimer digimer 4.0K 2008-02-14 15:34 . drwxr-xr-x 47 digimer digimer 4.0K 2008-02-25 16:04 .. ... lrwxrwxrwx 1 digimer digimer 17 2008-01-30 09:50 tle-bu.org -> /usr/share/tle-bu
This shows that the symlink 'tle-bu.org' in the local directory points to the directory '/usr/share/tle-bu'. In this case, the symlink provides an alternate path to another directory.
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