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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to make a link with a directory
Message-ID: <15372@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 3 Mar 91 05:02:41 GMT
References: <38578@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <38578@netnews.upenn.edu> duong@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (ROBOCOP) writes:
>I would like to know how to make the following link to a directory as
>the following
>l---------   1 root     sys           23 Jun 13  1990 cplot@ -> /u3/sjo/cplot/bin/cplot

?  I would think that if you looked up "link" in the Permuted Index
of your UNIX User's Manual, you would find the description of the "ln"
command.  The answer is, of course,
	ln -s /u3/sjo/cplot cplot