[Chester LUG] shortcut to movies

[Bryn Salisbury]

Try putting the long path inside quote marks:

ln -s "/media/disk/Documents and Settings/paul/My Documents/Movies" movies

I should have asked you about that...

B

2008/5/29 Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk>:
> ok.  did what was suggested.  results:
>
> root@********-desktop:~# cd Desktop
> root@********-desktop:~/Desktop# ln -s /media/disk/Documents and
> Settings/paul/My Documents/Movies movies
> ln: target `movies' is not a directory
> root@********-desktop:~/Desktop# ln -s /media/disk/Documents and
> Settings/paul/My Documents/Movies
> ln: target `Documents/Movies' is not a directory
> root@********-desktop:~/Desktop#
>
> Any idea what I did wrong?
>
> I copied the path directly from the file browser.
>
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