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Hi All of Unix/Linux professional
Q.Why soft link file not open by cat command. Ihave make
following symbolic link but when i open with #cat
linkfilename it does not oped please see the following code
and try to answer.
# ln -s file1 ~/mydir/filea
[root@dhcppc0 ~]# cd mydir
[root@dhcppc0 mydir]# ls -l
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2010-04-04 09:04 filea -> file1
[root@dhcppc0 mydir]# cat filea
cat: filea: No such file or directory
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Answer / kristofw
the problem arises because you did not provide path
information to the target file. ln will create the link
pointing to a file1 in the same directory as the link
itself. If you do add path information to the target, it
will work :
# ln -s ~/file1 ~/mydir/filea
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Answer / nikhil maggu
Hi,
First of all a soft link is not an actual file it refers a
link to the original file at different location.
and cat shows the content of a file having data, info etc.
But "ln" never saves any info it just a reference of
original file to a different location
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