Re: Setting up symbolic links in Degian Jessie

2015-06-01 Thread David Demelier
Le 31/05/2015 00:30, John Hasler a écrit : John J. Boyer writes: The symlink command does not exist on Debian Jessie. man ln If you refer to the symlink(2) in the manual that means it's a system call. See man 2 symlink. It's not a user-end executable command :-). Regards, -- David

Re: Setting up symbolic links in Degian Jessie

2015-06-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 02:24:35PM +0200, David Demelier wrote: Le 31/05/2015 00:30, John Hasler a écrit : John J. Boyer writes: The symlink command does not exist on Debian Jessie. man ln If you refer to the symlink(2) in the manual that means

Re: Setting up symbolic links in Degian Jessie

2015-05-30 Thread John Hasler
John J. Boyer writes: The symlink command does not exist on Debian Jessie. man ln The link command copies files instead of creating symbolic links, even though the man page says otgherwise. It creates a hard link, not a copy. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To

Setting up symbolic links in Degian Jessie

2015-05-30 Thread John J. Boyer
The symlink command does not exist on Debian Jessie. The link command copies files instead of creating symbolic links, even though the man page says otgherwise. The hardlink command isn't appropriate for setting up symbolic links from files in different directories to a master file. How do i

Re: Setting up symbolic links in Degian Jessie

2015-05-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 30 May 2015 16:44:08 -0500 John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org wrote: The symlink command does not exist on Debian Jessie. alias symlink='ln -s' Now it does exist. BTW, which OS has the 'symlink' command out of the box? The link command copies files instead of