RE: symbolic links
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Egglestone [mailto:megglestone@sd57.bc.ca]
> Sent: segunda-feira, 26 de Novembro de 2001 17:40
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: symbolic links
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I was running this command:
>
> ls -l
>
> in here:
>
> /var/spool/
>
> The file "mail" showed a link to somewhere, here's the output
> from mail
>
> .....Apr 1 2001 mail -> ../mail
>
> My question:
> I'm guessing that the file "mail" is linked to here: /var/mail
> but the above output doesn't tell me that.
Yes it does; .. means the parent dir, and so /var/spool/mail is a symlink to
../mail, i.e. /var/mail (since /var is
the parent fir of /var/spool). It's a relative symlink.
cheers,
fsm
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