On 25Aug2015 08:34, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 08/24/2015 02:19 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 24Aug2015 13:55, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Symlinks are strings resolved with respect to the directory in which
the symlink exists.
So the example above "Test/afile" => "Test/afile2" makes a symlink
_in_ the directory "Test" named "afile2" pointing at "Test/afile".
Therefore it tries to access the path "Test/Test/afile", which fails
as one might expect.
When making a symbolic link it needs to either be (a) an absolute
path or (b) relative WRT to the directory hodling the link. For the
latter, the reliable way is to cd to the directory and make in from
inside. That way command line filename completion prodcues working
results.
[...]
thank you for your reply. As it turns out the ln command
ln -s Test/afile Test/afile1
does create the link.
Of course it does. It is just a string. You can put pretty much anything you
like in there.
The problem as you noted is the ls command.
No, the problem is that the string in the symlink is _wrong_. "ls" is behaving
correctly. What you have put in the symlink is wrong, because it does not
correctly point at the target file.
You can either manually construct a correct symlink (suggestions above) or if
you have GNU ln (true on Fedora) use the -r option to have it figure this out
for you.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
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