Stephen Kuhn wrote:
I see, so symlinks aid initiation by linking commands to devices and apps and as such
I fully understand, though. Keep in mind that symbolic links are to *nix
what "shortcuts" are to Windows (very basically put - but not entirely
true - but the analogy works well in this instance).
Symbolic links are quite useful - much like the Windows shortcuts. You
can create symlinks to programs with cryptic and strange names that are
more easily typed...or vice versa...
are quite different in nature from a pipe which is , if I understand correctly, a way
of diverting a stream of data , refered to as standard output, to the imput side,
refered to as standard input, of another programme.
So them how do aliases fit into the grand scheme of things in linux.
John
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