Questions tagged [symlink]
Symlink is short for symbolic link (also soft link). It is a term for any file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution.
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mklink creating symbolic link succeeds in Windows 10 Home but fails in Windows 10 Professional [closed]
c:\dir> mklink a b
In Home Edition it succeeds. But in Professional Edition it fails with message 'You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.'
Windows version is [Version 10.0....
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How can I symlink to a pre-existing folder and maintain its connection to a GitHub repository?
I am one of two users collaborating on a website. We use a shared GitHub repository for version control.
The website is served from /shared/WWW. Initially, User 1 was given a symlinked /user1/WWW ...
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Snakemake rule generating symlink in Python script reruns always with "Code has changed" despite no code changes
I have a snakemake rule that generates symbolic links in a target folder. This is done within a Python script and the script directive in the rule. This rule is always rerun with reason: Code has ...
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failed to do symbolic links in android 9,10,11,12
I was wondering why doing symbolic link in android 9-12 always fails
the description of operation not allowed, for example like
ln -s /data/sdext2/Android/data/com.someapps /storage/emulated/0/Android/...
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Issue with Symbolic link on Robocopy with powershell [closed]
I am trying to use robocopy to copy a directory from a shared file system to the C drive of a windows host. This is done in an LSF job through bsub. The robocopy is called in a power shell script ...
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Python fails with error "File exists" when creating symlinks, even though the target does not exist [duplicate]
I have the sequence below and I can't explain what is going on. Am I doing something wrong or is something else going on?
The below is an exact copy/paste. I haven't edited it at all.
~/Desktop ...
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Unable to create symlink: File name too long in NixOS
I created two repositories.
The first contains a web application in Nuxt which I mainly run and develop on a NixOS machine.
The second one contains hard symlinks to Markdown files which I edit using ...
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PowerShell script refuses to exclude "symbolic link" folders
I am currently working on a script that needs to do the following :
Find all duplicate files on a specific folder based on their hash
Display their path and size
Export the results into a csv
But I ...
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Trying to figure out symboliclink PowerShell error
User is trying to use symbolic link two folders to keep her R scrips consistent. But the error pops out that the resource exists. Is the symbolic link command meant to link two folders together and ...
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How to add a symbolic link in to a patch using quilt?
I use the quilt utility to manage changes to the project's source code and to maintain the version of the deb package into which it is built. I encountered a problem - some source code files were ...
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Remove all symlinks that are pointing to specific directory [closed]
I created a lot of symbolic links in /usr/lib that point to different folder files /var/lib/temp,/tmp/xyz..etc
How to delete all the symbolic links (temp1.txt, temp2.txt, temp3.txt) pointing to /var/...
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Unix: Why symlinked shell interpreter still has an effect of the original interpreter? [duplicate]
In my Unix system, /bin/sh is symlinked to /bin/bash.
/bin/sh -> bash*
As this is the case, I expect that if an executable has a shebang of:
#!/bin/sh
it will be equivalent to:
#!/bin/bash
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Why does MINGW MSYS2 `ln` not create directory junctions?
Background: I have a good understanding of UNIX filesystems, POSIX filesystem semantics and the POSIX file-related APIs, but little understanding of NTFS and the Windows file-related APIs. I expect ...
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Is there a solution for using windows symbolic links with PHP?
I have created a symbolic directory link on my development server to allow my webserver to access photographs in my data folders to create galleries.
Server is Windows 10 (Version 10.0.19045.4291) ...
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Laravel - Symlink Issue with image display in production but works correctly in development environment
I'm encountering a problem with displaying images on my Laravel / Livewire website when I deploy it to production. Strangely, the images are correctly saved, via symlink, in the storage folder, but ...
