Top "Symlink" questions

Bash: how to get real path of a symlink?

Is it possible, executing a file symlinked in /usr/local/bin folder, to get the absolute path of original script? …

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is there a way to see the actual contents of a symlink?

When you do cat some-symlink-to-some-real-file it shows the contents of the real file, not what is within the symlink itself. …

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How can I detect whether a symlink is broken in Bash?

I run find and iterate through the results with [ \( -L $F \) ] to collect certain symbolic links. I am wondering if …

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How can I derefence symbolic links in bash?

How can I take any given path in bash and convert it to it's canonical form, dereferencing any symbolic links …

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Commit symlink into subversion

I'm tring to commit a symlink into subversion, but I get this error when I try to add the actual …

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How do I move a relative symbolic link?

I have a lot of relative symbolic links that I want to move to another directory. How can I move …

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How to move one directory back in unix / linux when path contains symbolic links?

I have created a symbolic link to a deeply nested directory. Using symbolic link i can move to that directory …

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Creating Symbolic link fails

I am trying to upgrade glibcxx on my CentOS 6.7 machine. I did the steps as given here. Now, when I …

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Can I symlink multiple directories into one?

I have a feeling that I already know the answer to this one, but I thought I'd check. I have …

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Find out whether a file is a symbolic link in PowerShell

I am having a PowerShell script which is walking a directory tree, and sometimes I have auxiliary files hardlinked there …

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