On Sunday 17 April 2005 09:56 am, SOTL wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> From discussions I has at the last Dunedial meeting I thought links were
> simple but I have found differrent.
>
> I have a copy O\of O'Reilly Pocket Guide to Linux and a copy of Practical
> Linux but neither appear to discuss what I would like to do.
>
> Lets assume I have a file: testfile1
> I can link test1 to a secton file called testfileln1 by
> $ ln -s testfile1 testfileln1
>
> well and good.
>
> But what I would like to do is do this with with two directories say
> testdir1 and testdir2.
>
> Lets let testdir1 contains files testfile1 and testfile2.
> Now I would like to link testdir1 to testdir2 so that all files in testdir1
> appear in testdir2. That is when I open testdir2 I see all the files in
> testdir1.
>
> I would appreciate someone explaining how one does that.
>
> Thanks
> Frank
Hi Frank,
The command for creating symbolic links to directories works the same as it
does for files. Using your testdir example you would do:
$ ln -s testdir1 testdir2
That would create a symbolic link named "testdir2" pointing to "testdir1".
The following example should illustrate what you want to do.
$ mkdir testdir1
$ cd testdir1
$ echo "This is the contents of testfile1" > testfile1
$ ln -s testfile1 testfile2
$ cd ..
$ ln -s testdir1 testdir2
$ cat testdir2/testfile2
The cat commend will print:
$ This is the contents of testfile1
-Rob
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