[Nottingham] Linking Folders?

[Martin]

James Gibbon wrote:
> "Incandescant " wrote:
> 
>>is there any command so that I can sym-link a folder? ln -s doesn't work
>>(according to research).
> 
> I'm assuming by 'folder' you mean a directory, and yes it does 
> work!  Please publish the results of your research so we can work
> out what went wrong :)


Just double checked myself and indeed symlinking to a dir is fine.

Note to use "ln -s existingDir linknameToDir" rather than just "ln"... 
Hard links to a dir could be very troublesome and are disabled by 
default. Root could override this if really required...

Have fun,
Martin

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