Re: [Sheflug] Mozila / Java

[Dave Mitchell <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:52:11AM +0000, Alec Melling wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I am trying to get the Java plug-in to work in Mozila. Being new to Linux I 
> have butted the brick-wall early... could someone please tell me what the 
> hell a symbolic link is please?

A symbolic link is simply a file that isn't a real file but instead
contains the name of another file (or directory), and is useful
when stuff needs to be placed on disk in a different location than where
some software expects it.

symlinks are created using the 'ln -s' command.

For example:

$ echo 'hello' > file1
$ ln -s file1 file2
$ ls -l file1 file2
-rw-r--r--   1 davem    generic        6 Oct 16 12:03 file1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 davem    generic        5 Oct 16 12:03 file2 -> file1
$ cat file1
hello
$ cat file2
hello


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