On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:47 AM, John Almberg wrote:
On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:22:13AM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
I always thought that links to real directories were pretty much the
same as real directories, but I've just discovered a situation where
they are not and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong...
A *soft* link to a directory entry (be it a directory or a file or
something
else) is not quite equivalent to the original entry since they are
easily
distinguished and some programs do treat softlinks differently
from other
targets.
I can see that, now... If I create a soft link to ~/shared/config,
and then cd into the directory, when I type 'ls ..', I get the
listing for ~/shared, not ~/app.
Bummer...
I've just dug through man ln, and don't see any obvious solution.
Since this must be a problem for anyone who wants to do something
like this, I guess I am taking the wrong approach, altogether.
Will have to re-think this....
<smell of burning rubber commences...>
Okay! I guess I wasn't the first to have this problem...
lndir (in ports) solves the problem by creating a set of soft links
for all the files in the 'linked' directory. Kinda kludgy, but it works.
-- John
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