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Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time?

From Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time?
Date 2013-04-17 22:34 +0100
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Keith Keller wrote:

> Your initial proposal, pointing one symlink to two different places, is
> unfortunately not possible.  However, you can still use symlinks to
> avoid the copying step.  See if this works for your purposes:
> 
> mkdir targetDir
> cd targetDir
> ln -s /path/to/dir1/* .
> ln -s /path/to/dir2/* .

I would add that if all files are stored in the same file system then 
instead of creating symlinks for the files, hard links should be used 
instead.  In fact, this is exactly what they were created to accomplish.


Rui Maciel

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may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? www <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-17 11:23 -0700
  Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2013-04-17 11:45 -0700
    Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-04-17 22:34 +0100
      Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2013-04-17 15:03 -0700
        Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2013-04-20 19:44 +0200
  Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-04-17 20:51 +0200
  Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-04-17 20:27 +0000
  Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid> - 2013-04-24 06:42 -0400

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