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Is it possible, executing a file symlinked in /usr/local/bin folder, to get the absolute path of original script? Well, .. I know where original file is, and I know it because I am linkging it. But, ... I want this script working, even if I move original source code (and symlink). #!/bin/bash echo "my path is ..." readlink is not a standard command, but it's common on Linux and BSD, including OS X, and it's the most straightforward answer to your question. BSD and GNU readlink implementations are different, so read the documentation for the one you have. If readlink is not available, or you

I have a linux directory (and don't need any windows checkout): /home/me/projects/project1 In this project, I need SVN (1.8.8) to follow a symlink "link1": /home/me/projects/project1/link1/<some_directories_and_files> But SVN won't let me do that, it just add link1 but not its content. If I try to add its content, I get an error: svn add link1/* svn: E145001: Can't schedule an addition of '/home/me/projects/project1/link1/first_directory' below a not-directory node I tried converting link1 to hard link but I can't do that either: ln /path/to/my/linked/directory link1 ln: ‘/path/to/my/linked

In a directory I have symbolic links into a git-administered directory (all under Linux). Every time I want to e -dit such a link I get a dialog question: Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link? (yes or no) And I have to type y e s ⏎ to get to the file. Is there a somewhat simpler way? Ideally, something like declaring that a directory needs no dialog. Set vc-follow-symlinks . You probably want it to be nil (open link), but be sure to read the docs because t (open target) is also sensible. (setq vc-follow-symlinks nil) You can make this a dir local variable if you don't want

How do I change a symlink to point from one file to another in Python? The os.symlink function only seems to work to create new symlinks. If you need an atomic modification, unlinking won't work. A better solution would be to create a new temporary symlink, and then rename it over the existing one: os.symlink(target, tmpLink) os.rename(tmpLink, linkName) You can check to make sure it was updated correctly too: if os.path.realpath(linkName) == target: # Symlink was updated According to the documentation for os.rename though, there may be no way to atomically change a symlink in Windows. In that

I would like to have a symbolic link in tomcat's webapps directory that points to a war file at another place in my file system, and I would like that war file to be served as the default webapp. I have pieced together the following solution, but the app is not accessible from the browser. I have a folder in my home directory ~/tomcat/webapps. The owner is tomcat7. In this folder, I have my war file, myapp-1.0.war. In my /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps directory, I have a symbolic link: myapp -> /home/[me]/tomcat/webapps/myapp-1.0.war. In my /etc/tomcat7/server.xml, I have: <Context docBase="/var/lib

I would like to know how an absolute path of a symbolic link can be converted to relative based on a given directory (that includes the linked file) in c language on linux (Ubuntu) OS. I thought searching for the sub-string of the relative path, but what if it already exists higher in the folder's hierarchy? Here is a more specific description of what I want to do: Relative path: folder/folder1/folder2 Absolut path: /home/giorgos/Desktop/folder/folder1/folder2/a.pdf changed to /home/giorgos/Desktop/myfolder/folder1/folder2/a.pdf Obviously I cant' simply search for and replace "folder/",

I'm trying to run a virtual host on a WAPP stack. My virtual host has the FollowSymLinks option, but in Windows, all those symbolic links (I'm using shortcuts, and I think this may be the problem) have the .lnk extension. So if I'm trying to access settings.html , Apache can't find it because all i have sitting there is settings.html.lnk . Apologies if my question is unclear. Apache doesn't understand shortcuts. You need to use a proper symlink. On windows this is accomplished using the command line tool mklink . See http://ipggi.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/windows-file-junctions-symbolic-links