Soft Linking

ln -s <source> <destination>

1. if a folder will go inside a preexisting destination folder then use

   • ln -s /path/to/source/ /path/to/destination/

2. if a folder will become a destination folder then use

   • ln -s /path/to/source/ /path/to/destination

3. when soft linking the source path must be reachable as-is from the destination ... for example:

   1. if server folder resides at ~/dev/project/server and we want to put a soft linked version of it under the ~/dev/project/linkUnderMe/ folder as ~/dev/project/linkUnderMe/server

      1. ~/dev/project/server

         • exists

      2. ~/dev/project/linkUnderMe/

         • exists

      3. ~/dev/project/linkUnderMe/server

         • this soft link is what we want to accomplish

   2. then

      1. go to cd ~/dev/project/ and try

      2. ln -s ./server ./linkUnderMe/server

         1. but it will NOT work!

         2. because ./server is not reachable from inside of ./linkUnderMe/ as-is

      3. ln -s ./../server ./linkUnderMe/server

         • will work

      4. ln -s ~/dev/project/server ./linkUnderMe/server

         • will work