Re: [Sheflug] Mozila / Java

[Alec Melling <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 11:04, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> 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

Thanks for this.
-- 
Alec Melling
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