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Pilot345
11-25-2000, 10:18 PM
I've checked the man pages and couldnt find anything on how to create a symbolic link from a command prompt. Does anyone know how too?

-Joe

Daedra
11-25-2000, 10:19 PM
ln -s <file A> <file b>

example...

ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.5 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1

Pilot345
11-25-2000, 10:23 PM
Thanks a lot

ph34r
11-25-2000, 10:33 PM
While that is correct, I would

ln -s <target file> <new link name>