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monk
monk

Reputation: 2115

Creating symlinks between two files from third directory

I have a directory structure as follow and my current working directory is "a".

-->cd a/
-->tree
.
└── b
    └── c
        └── d
            └── e
                └── foo

5 directories, 0 files

From directory a, which means my current directory is a. I want to create symlink of file b/c/d/e/foo to b/c/d/e/bar. So that when someone open b/c/d/e/bar, contents of b/c/d/e/foo will show up.

I tried following but it do not work, it means bar is pointing to b/c/d/f/foo from current directory which is an invalid path. 

-->ln -sf b/c/d/e/foo b/c/d/e/bar

-->tree
.
└── b
    └── c
        └── d
            └── e
                ├── bar -> b/c/d/e/foo
                └── foo

5 directories, 1 file

One dirty solution is to cd to b/c/d/e dir and perform ln -s. but I am trying to avoid it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 81

Answers (1)

tripleee
tripleee

Reputation: 189936

The first argument to ln -s is just a piece of text. If you put ln -s a/b/c d/e then d/e will point to d/a/b/c because a/b/c is now the target of the symlink e in the directory d.

So in your case, simply do

ln -s foo b/c/d/e/bar

Upvotes: 2

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