Questions tagged [symlink]

Question 1

I understand that in unix systems symlinks can link to files and directories and are files themselves so if I want to remove a symlink I need to rm symlink without the trailing /. But they otherwise ...

Question 2

I have a script which does incremental backups with rsync (script 1). I tried to add the feature to continue unfinished jobs in another script (script 2) but this version does a full copy of the ...

Question 3

The command run to un-archive is as follows: tar -zxvpf my_files_weekly.tar.gz --exclude=/etc/ssh/ -C / > /dev/null Results in the following errors: tar: ./usr/share/doc/udev: Cannot create ...

Question 4

I have just run zypper up on a openSUSE 15.6 computer and the installation of the new kernel says dracut-install error: /sbin/sysctl is pointing to itself and indeed this symbolic link is a loop: king:...

Question 5

I’m trying to create a single relative symlink pointing public/train/train back to public/train, but my command ends up nesting infinitely. For example: ln -snrf "$ROOT/public/train" "$...

Question 6

On my machine, there is a file: /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal Which is a symlink whose content is: ../../app/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal/current/active/export/bin/com.github....

Question 7

Bash has the built-in command "type", which indicates how each argument would be interpreted if used as a command name, for instance: $ type myfunction myfunction is a function myfunction () ...

Question 8

I frequently find myself googling the difference between symbolic links and hard links. Each time, I conclude that hard links seem superior in most use cases, especially when Linux is my daily driver. ...

Question 9

How to create an archive containing links and the linked files. I have some shared libraries of which I want to create an archive. This is what I tried mkdir dest #abc.so is a link file which points ...

Question 10

For years I used a setup where I have a CIFS mount to a windows share directory. This directory contains symlinks to other windows location. Trying to replicate this on the latest raspberry pi OS (...

Question 11

On Linux, I'm looking at /proc/1/cwd. This symlink is not readable as a normal user: $ ls /proc/1/cwd ls: cannot access '/proc/1/cwd': Permission denied But /proc/1 is accessible: $ ls /proc/1 <...

Question 12

New Linux user here, freshly transitioned from Windows 10 to Fedora 41. Lot's of experience with many OS's, including various *nix and Unix-like file systems. I have a standard practice of using ...

Question 13

Similar to here, but no solution was found for them either. I also tried checking the history, see if something was running 'rm' but no dice. Periodically, my device stops responding. The only ...

Question 14

I'm using this symlinks ln -s "$REPO_DIR/src/packages/my-project/out" "$OUTPUT_PATH" Currently, my OUTPUT_PATH only has only 1 folder out How can I make my OUTPUT_PATH has all the ...

Question 15

I have a large set of directories and files, along with many symlinks that typically point to a directory called "shared" or to a directory or a file underneath the "shared" ...

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Questions tagged [symlink]

Why can't I use `rm -r` on a symlink pointing to a directory?

rsync script for incremental backup which continues unfinished jobs

Tar cannot create symlinks on extraction

openSUSE 15.6 sysctl pointing to itself

Non-recursively Symlinks for a Directory

How to resolve a relative symlink to an absolute one without canonicalizing it?

In bash, how to resolve what is actually going to be executed?

Why are symbolic links more common than hard links in Unix/Linux? [closed]

tar not preserving symlinks

CIFS mount containing windows symlinks access

Why are some symlinks unreadable when their target is readable?

Can Linux files systems resolve a relative path before resolving symlink?

/bin, /sbin symlinks mysteriously breaking, init file disappearing. How to debug?

Symlinks with data inside directory

How to find and list all symlinks in a short form?

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