For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

Symbolic and hard links provide a way to avoid duplicating data on Unix/Linux systems, but the uses and restrictions vary depending on which kind of link you choose to use. Let’s look at how links can ...

In Unix, a file that points to another file or directory. It is used to allow a variety of sources to point to a common destination. The Windows 2000 counterpart is the "virtual directory." When URLs ...

Ever notice how, after following a symbolic link to a new directory, the pwd command shows you where you are in the file system according to the symbolic link rather than the actual file system ...

You wouldn't know it just by looking, but Mac OS X has two types of aliases. The first are the traditional aliases, which work the same way they do in Mac OS 9. The second type are called symbolic ...

When Apple made the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, one of the under-the-hood consequences was that Mac aliases—tiny files that point to other files—lost some functionality. Or to put it more ...

When you work with the command line, you’ll notice that you cannot navigate “into” aliases created with the Finder when in Terminal. For example, you cannot issue a cd command into an alias, because ...

I don't think it indexes that. But you can find it with the find command. #! /bin/tcsh -f # # spot (tcsh script) # - tcsh script to search for symbolic links using Max OS X's Spotlight index. # # ...