From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 09:24:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11788 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:24:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lewistown.tein.net (lewistown.tein.net [206.252.246.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11782 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gary@tein.net) Received: from tein.net (tech.tein.net [206.252.246.29]) by lewistown.tein.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA28546 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:25:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <35C8871D.392D5FF6@tein.net> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 10:23:57 -0600 From: Gary Landers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Simple UNIX question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG how do I create shortcuts or aliases or whatever it is called when a file name in a directory listing refers to another file or location. a listing in /usr/local/bin show up like this perl@ -> /usr/local/bin/perl5.00404 If I could create the same thing in /usr/bin then several perl scripts wouldent have to be manualy edited. Just let me know the right man page, I can get it from there. -- Gary Landers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message