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Ubuntu: Up and Running
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Ubuntu: Up and Running

by Robin Nixon
April 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
464 pages
12h 7m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Symbolic Links

Sometimes you need easy access to a file or a folder from a different location. For example, if you have the username mary and work mostly in your home folder, it would be inconvenient to keep having to browse to a document stored at the following location:

/home/mary/Documents/freelance/invoicing/template.odt

But with a symbolic link to the file as follows, you can always access it directly from your home folder:

/home/mary/invtemp.odt

Whenever you open the linked file invtemp.odt (also known as an alias or shortcut), you will actually be accessing the original file template.odt, several folders down the filesystem. It is also possible to create a symbolic link to an entire folder (and its subfolders).

Creating such links is covered in Chapter 6, and is easily done with a couple of mouse clicks.

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