Timeline for MacOS: How to "cd" into a symlink?
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| Jan 5, 2012 at 22:03 | comment | added | TheCompWiz | @dmckee: no clue what you're talking about. They do work... maybe not as you wanted them to work. You just need to understand the "why" they're working the way they are. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 21:54 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Well, you can create them...they just don't work. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 21:32 | vote | accept | Ecir Hana | ||
| Jan 5, 2012 at 21:25 | comment | added | TheCompWiz |
As long as the target has a full path... sure. but relative paths may not work so nice. i.e. ln -s ../some-dir/some-file some-file vs ln -s /dir/some-dir/some-file some-file
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| Jan 5, 2012 at 21:19 | comment | added | Ecir Hana | And is it possible to move a symlink around? To create it somewhere, to move it under another folder, while preserving its functionality? | |
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| Jan 5, 2012 at 20:57 | history | answered | TheCompWiz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |