Re: [newbie] Creating symbolic links

[Gary Montalbine]

FemmeFatale wrote:

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:11, John Richard Smith wrote:

It confused me for a long time.

ln -s <destination  file>  < source file >    <enter>

John

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John Richard Smith

Its still confusing me!  This is what I tried & the error msgs:

[root@Heather bin]# ln -s usr/games/fortune usr/bin

Try using ln -s /usr/games/fortune /usr/bin. I think the "/" is necessary to deliniate a directory.

Gary

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