----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 05:36 Subject: Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?
> On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 8:52 pm, g wrote: > > Marco Verheul wrote: > > > Does anybody know how to create a symbolic link? > > > > marco, > > > > linux and unix have a program know as 'man', which is > > terse for 'manual'. > > > > definition for most all command line commands can be > > viewed by entering, in command line mode, either outside > > of x-windows, or in an x terminal window. > > > > so, any time you are wondering about a command, simply > > enter 'man progname'. in this case, 'man ln'. > > > > you can even enter 'man man' to get a description > > of how to use 'man'. > > > Of course, the snag is that you have to know that 'ln' is the progname > for making a symbolic link <g> > > Anne and that's probably where apropos comes in (see last line of included output) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sj]# apropos link cleanlinks (1x) - remove dangling symbolic links and empty directories ifplugd (8) - A link detection daemon for ethernet devices ifstatus (8) - A link beat detection tool ld (1) - Using LD, the GNU linker ld.so/ld [ld] (8) - linux.so - dynamic linker/loader ldconfig (8) - determine run-time link bindings link (1) - call the link function to create a link to a file ln (1) - make links between files *remainder of apropos output snipped*
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