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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!think.com!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!cs.titech!titccy.cc.titech!ss.titech!cradle.titech!nakamura From: nakamura@cradle.titech.ac.jp (Kazushi NAKAMURA) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How do you make those -> directories? Message-ID: <966@apricot.cradle.titech.ac.jp> Date: 14 Nov 92 18:54:33 GMT References: <1du24pINNd03@ub.d.umn.edu> Organization: The Center for Research And DeveLopment of Educational Tech., Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Tokyo, JAPAN Lines: 19 Hello! Chris. >From article <1du24pINNd03@ub.d.umn.edu>, by cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris): > Hello > How do you make those '->' directories? The first file attribute is > the letter 'l' (what does that stand for?) and the name is something > like 'stuff -> /here/it/is' I searched the manuals but I only found the > normal directory commands. It called symbolic link. Use 'ln' command with '-s' flag. As, ln -s /here/it/is stuff Please see man ln(1). -- nakamura@cradle.titech.ac.jp CRADLE, Tokyo Institute of Technology kazus-n@ascii.co.jp NAKAMURA Kazushi jo3oob@jo3oob 1293.74MHz(PM95)