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Answer by LucasY for How to create a soft or symbolic link?

This template was more helpful for me than the above answers. Probably not more correct, just less obfuscated:ln -s <path/to/real/file-or-folder> <symlink path>Just replace the parts in...

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Answer by briankip for How to create a soft or symbolic link?

I have found that it is easier to go to where you want the link to be and then create the link using sudo ln -s /path/to/source/file, than doing ln -s target source. So in your case I would do cd...

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Answer by Mohamad El Boudi for How to create a soft or symbolic link?

ln -s -n ./TargetDirectory ./NicknameNote, this works if you both nodes are below you in the same tree. You can use relative notation-s command makes it a symbolic link-n makes it possible de create a...

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Answer by Sam for How to create a soft or symbolic link?

If it is saying target is not a folder, it means there are spaces in your folder names eg: New Folder has a spaceYou need to edit the path and add a backslash \ after every space in the pathseg: ln -s...

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Answer by Hafiz Shehbaz Ali for How to create a soft or symbolic link?

Check the software location by this. which application-name #replace for the application you are looking forfor example which skypeoutput will be this. /usr/bin/skype To create the soft link. for...

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Answer by Pedro Arnoldo Machado Duran for How to create a soft or symbolic link?

The error is that you are writing the command wrong. The correct way isln -s /<full>/<path>/<to>/<file> /usr/local/binhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2001697

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Answer by dv3500ea for How to create a soft or symbolic link?

If the 'p4v' executable is at /opt/bin/p4v, you can simply run:sudo ln -s /opt/bin/p4v /usr/bin/p4vsudo chmod ugo+x /usr/bin/p4vIt would be better to add /opt/bin (or wherever the executable is) to...

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Answer by MichałŠrajer for How to create a soft or symbolic link?

See man ln.To create a symlink at /usr/bin/bar which references the original file /opt/foo, use:ln -s /opt/foo /usr/bin/barYou would need to apply the above command as root (i.e. with sudo).

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How to create a soft or symbolic link?

I am installing p4v in /opt, but /usr/bin is on my path. Is it possible to create a soft or symbolic link for p4v from /opt to /usr/bin, so I can just type "p4v" since /usr/bin is in my path?

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