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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:21:01 -0500
From:      Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com>
To:        "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linking directories
Message-ID:  <20010308032100.A2169@guinness.osdn.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0103080034200.2480068-100000@irix1.gl.umbc.edu>; from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:36:35AM -0500
References:  <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0103080034200.2480068-100000@irix1.gl.umbc.edu>

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On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 at 00:36:35 -0500, G. Jason Middleton wrote:
> i have racked my brains out over this...i want to make a link to a
> directory and i don't know how to do it.
> 
> i have read the link manpage and i am not getting it.
> 
> i want to make a link to /usr/local/www/ What is the syntax to go
> about doing this?
> 
> Am i using the right command (ln,link)?

From the ln(1) man page...

   ln [options] source_file target_file

So, ln -fs /usr/local/www /path/to/link

- jim

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