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How can I create a symlink which points to another symlink?
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Is there any way to create a symbolic link which points to another symbolic link? I have link A (pointing to address1 = ) in /home/data directory and I need to create link B in which is points to link A. If I do , it doesn't work.
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/home/data/username/var
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The argument order is So you'd want Update: I'd forgotten the flag in my sample, so it was trying to create hard links, which WILL traverse symlinks to try and point at whatever the link is pointing at. With symlinks, you can nest them as deep as yo…
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