[Chester LUG] shortcut to movies

[Bryn Salisbury]

The other thing... try as yourself, rather than as root... I don't
know if you'd be allowed to use the symlink as your "normal" user.

B

2008/5/29 Bryn Salisbury <bryn.salisbury at gmail.com>:
> 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
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> 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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