duong@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (ROBOCOP) (03/03/91)
I would like to know how to make the following link to a directory as the following l--------- 1 root sys 23 Jun 13 1990 cplot@ -> /u3/sjo/cplot/bin/cplot Thanks.. duc
mike (03/03/91)
In an article, duong@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (ROBOCOP) writes: >I would like to know how to make the following link to a directory as >the following > >l--------- 1 root sys 23 Jun 13 1990 cplot@ -> /u3/sjo/cplot/bin/cplot Are you talking about symbolic links or hard links (this looks symbolic)? If you want a hard link, use link(2); if you want a symbolic link, use symlink(2). If you want to do this from the command line or a script, then read up on the ln(1) command. -- Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc., Los Angeles| Opinions stated are not even my own. Title of the week: Systems Engineer | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember folks: If you can't flame MS-DOS, then what _can_ you flame?
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (03/03/91)
In article <38578@netnews.upenn.edu> duong@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (ROBOCOP) writes: >I would like to know how to make the following link to a directory as >the following >l--------- 1 root sys 23 Jun 13 1990 cplot@ -> /u3/sjo/cplot/bin/cplot ? I would think that if you looked up "link" in the Permuted Index of your UNIX User's Manual, you would find the description of the "ln" command. The answer is, of course, ln -s /u3/sjo/cplot cplot