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From ghe <ghe@slsware.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject link question
Date 2020-02-25 21:30 +0100
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What does, in /usr/bin/X11, 'X11 -> .' mean?

Looks to me like it means 'link <here> to <here>'

When I do 'ls /usr/bin/X11 | grep X11' I get X11.
When I do 'ls /usr/bin/X11/X11/X11 | grep X11' I get X11.

When I do 'du -sh /usr/bin/X11/' I get 81M.
When I do 'du -sh /usr/bin/X11/X11/X11/' I get 81M.

When I do 'ls X11 >X11.a' and 'ls X11/X11/X11 >X11.b' and diff them, I
get a couple garbage lines and no other difference between the two X11s
(the dirs contain very large number of files).

My guess is that all the X11s are pointing to themselves. Anybody know
why that's done?

(I found this yesterday when SLiM, my DM, wasn't coming up -- I'd
managed to delete the entire /usr/bin/X11. But startx was starting XFCE
with no X11 dir. I'm missing something...)

-- 
Glenn English

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link question ghe <ghe@slsware.net> - 2020-02-25 21:30 +0100
  Re: link question Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-02-25 21:30 +0100
    Re: link question Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-02-26 06:40 +0100
  Re: link question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-02-26 17:20 +0100

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