Symbolic Links

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Wednesday, February 24th, 2016

Make a Symlink on Linux or Unix

Use the full path to your existing file or directory! Linking with relative paths may result in symlinks which are themselves relative.

sudo ln -s /path/to/existing_file link_name
#

Make a Symlink on Windows

mklink /j link_name /path/to/existing_file
#


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