Comments on: Unix Create a Symbolic Link

By: Sean M. Burke

Sean M. Burke — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:29:42 +0000

I could never get the order of the two things in "ln -s X Y" right, and ended up clobbering Ys with dangling links to X. So I wrote this little sanity-checker wrapper around it: lns. It does stuff like making sure that your link won't overwrite anything, and that it's a link to something that already exists. Just common sense, but sense that I didn't have. lns: http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/lns.html I've been using it for ten years, and I think it's the most useful program I've ever written. (crontab2english is a runner-up, people tell me)

By: Atul Khachane

Atul Khachane — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:34:52 +0000

Hi,

You may delete soft link using below command
# unlink {link name};

By: Puneet Verma

Puneet Verma — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:17:13 +0000

I am trying to create a hard link to PHP file after installation of PHP4 as a CGI .
My Current directory is clients cgi-bin and want to create a link to usr/local/php4/bin/php but getting following error:

ln: creating hard link `php’ to `/usr/local/php4/bin/php’: Invalid cross-device link