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Symlink to a URL

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Mar 15, 202627509 views
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Is there any way to create a symbolic link to a (HTTP) URL? Update: The reason I want to do this is so that I can move this symlink to another computer without having to copy the file itself (it's big), and instead, the other computer will just use the online copy from the URL.

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Fix for: Symlink to a URL

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It's not possible to create a symlink to an URL. If you can make executables and the target OS is Linux-alike, you can create a file which opens the URL as in:

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