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Say that I set up a symbolic link: mklink /D C:\root\Public\mytextfile.txt C:\root\Public\myothertextfile.txt Editor's note: Option /D - which is for creating directory symlinks - is at odds with targeting files , as in this example, which has caused some confusion. To create a file symlink, simply omit /D . Is there a way to see what the target of mytextfile.txt is, using the command line? Paul Verest As Harry Johnston said dir command shows the target of symbolic links 2014/07/31 11:22 <DIR> libs 2014/08/01 13:53 4,997 mobile.iml 2014/07/31 11:22 689 proguard-rules.pro 2014/09/28 10:54

I have a directory to which a process uploads some .pdf files. This process is out of my control. I need to make those files available through the website using Tomcat. I have a directory /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/test1 available to the web and I can see the files in it with a browser. So, I created a symbolic link pointing at the directory with the .pdf files: /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/test1/files/ , but I can't see anything in that directory. How can I enable symlinks in the test1 directory only? I don't want to enable symlinks everywhere, just so that directory with .pdf files is available to

I have a problems with a git repository and windows. The problem is that the git repository has a linux symbolic link in it and with developers running windows, that obviously does not work. Now since that symbolic link should never change, I want to find a way to delete that on developers and add a folder in its place (which is what the symbolic points to) but have git ignore those particular changes. Now I can remove the symbolic links, create a folder of the same name and just add a .gitignore that ignores everything. Now as far as making sure git ignore the removal of the symbolic link, I

Consider the following command line snippet: $ cd /tmp/ $ mkdir dirA $ mkdir dirB $ echo "the contents of the 'original' file" > orig.file $ ls -la orig.file -rw-r--r-- 1 $USER $USER 36 2010-12-26 00:57 orig.file # create symlinks in dirA and dirB that point to /tmp/orig.file: $ ln -s $(pwd)/orig.file $(pwd)/dirA/ $ ln -s $(pwd)/orig.file $(pwd)/dirB/lorig.file $ ls -la dirA/ dirB/ dirA/: total 44 drwxr-xr-x 2 $USER $USER 4096 2010-12-26 00:57 . drwxrwxrwt 20 root root 36864 2010-12-26 00:57 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 $USER $USER 14 2010-12-26 00:57 orig.file -> /tmp/orig.file dirB/: total 44 drwxr-xr-x

I'm having some trouble setting up Apache on Ubuntu. I've been following this guide . # /usr/sbin/apache2 -v Server version: Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) Server built: Feb 22 2011 18:33:02 My public directory, /var/www, can successfully serve up and execute PHP pages that are placed in it. However, I want to create a symlink in /var/www that points to a directory in my home folder and serve pages there. [root /var/www]# ll total 36 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-09-11 14:22 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2011-06-04 22:49 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2011-09-11 13:21 about -> /root/site/about When