Questions tagged [symlink]
symbolic link, a type of file that is a reference to another file or folder
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Folder contains invisible file whose name starts with ..\..\
I have a Visual Studio for Mac project folder that contains an unusual file: The file is only visible with ls -A in the terminal, and its name is ..\..\items.json:
~/Projects/Boss/Boss/bin/Debug % ls -...
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Auto relative symbolic links in Mac OS X
I wanna ask if it is possible to automatically create relative symbolic links in Mac OS X ?
Seems like Linux has -r option for ln to do this:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10370/make-a-...
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How to add Google Chrome to path?
I want to add Google Chrome to path under the google-chrome name so that I can execute the following command: google-chrome --version.
First I tried with:
sudo ln -s /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/...
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Hardlinking to $HOME/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs
How can the directory ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs be hardlinked to the directory `~/iCloud? The suggested answer to this question, based on the following command
gln -d /Users/mpf/...
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Storing Aerial Screensaver vids externally via symlink
My system drive is tiny and my second is 2TB. Therefore I would like to store the Sonoma Aerial videos on the second drive. If I use shuffle, there's approximately 57gb of them.
I presumed that macos ...
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i tried symlinking the existing package into /usr/local/bin but homebrew still keeps trying to download its own version which results in failure [duplicate]
I know from questions like Use specific local gcc and related libraries with Homebrew that this apparently isn't something easy to do, but that particular question seems to have been resolved with &...
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Reveal Symbolic Link in Finder, NOT the file it resolves to?
I wrote the following script to select copied/pasted Finder items in the target folder I pasted them into.
tell application "Finder"
set thePath to POSIX path of (insertion location as ...
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Mac how to delete broken symlink in Mac trash
In the Trash folder on my Mac I have the following directory that contains a symlink I can't delete called X11R6 (/Users/gcn/.Trash/temp/Previously Relocated Items/Security/usr/).
I've tried a variety ...
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How to fix broken symbolic link in an M1 Mac?
file /Users/gani/.local/pipx/venvs/aws-sso-util/bin/python
/Users/gani/.local/pipx/venvs/aws-sso-util/bin/python: broken symbolic link to python3.10
Here is more info:
ls /Users/gani/.local/pipx/...
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Why does my DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH makes dynamic linker see a dylib that`ls` does not show me?
How did adding /usr/lib/ to my DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH cause this dynamic linking problem on my MacOS Ventura M1 MBP?
I had set export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="...:/usr/lib:..." in my .bash_profile.
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Did 13.4 change handling of symlinks? [closed]
Some scripts that have been working well for months failed miserably today.
I am not completely certain what's going on; perhaps someone else can confirm or refute what I think I've found:
Formerly, ...
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Why won't my iCloud symlinks for ~/Desktop and ~/Documents show up in Finder?
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I can't see the symlinks to my iCloud-synced Desktop and Documents folders in my home directory when using Finder. I have some work-arounds, but want to understand and solve the underlying ...
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Get Homebrew to re-create executable symlinks for an installed package (ghostscript)?
I am trying to re-install/re-link Ghostscript from Homebrew. I previously had it installed from Hombrew and working fine, but recently I installed MacTeX 2023, and it seems that it replaced the ...
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macOS files "connected" but no symlink?
Disclaimer
I’m not sure how to even phrase the issue here. So if you find a better way, please comment it, I’ll edit the question.
I don’t know either if it’s a LyX or macOS related question. So ...
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How can I set Python symlink in MacOS Ventura?
I am trying to set a symlink so that I can point the python command in Terminal to a new install of python3.
I last did this in Mojave, where one could disable csrutil and then run the following ...
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How to point to a file in a different folder on iOS/iPadOS?
On my iPad, I use iCloud Drive and the Files app. My files are organized in folders in iCloud Drive so that I can access them on all of my devices.
I frequently want to point to a file that is stored ...
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Create a link from one directory to another
I have two accounts on the same Mac.
The first account has two directories myScripts and downloads that I want to use from the second account. myScripts is on the environment path, so I can run the ...
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How to symlink Mac OS' own folders (Monterey)?
I am looking for a way to accomplish the following on Monterey (12.6):
In the past I would symlink some Mac OS system folders (Documents, Downloads and Desktop) to folders already synced to a Synology ...
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Does the "realpath" command in /bin resolve firmlinks as well as softlinks?
Some macOS installations include the Unix realpath command and some do not. I haven't been able to discern an accurate pattern of which versions have it.
I'm on an M1 Air with Monterrey 12.6 and Xcode ...
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Creating a symlink doesn't work. How do I create it?
OS version:
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 12.4
BuildVersion: 21F79
Command Line Interface:
zsh 5.8.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin21.0)
Steps to reproduce
$ cd /usr/bin
$ ln -sf whatever_exist ...
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Do I need to reinstall my OS due to Ruby?
After trying to upgrade my flutter apps dependencies failed, I've seen a command in the call stack and tried to run it. Now I think I screwed up my local ruby installation with my workarounds. I would ...
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Multiple versions of the same Python installed
I installed Python3 via brew:
brew install [email protected]
And following the symlink chain of which python3 leads to:
$ which python3
/usr/local/bin/python3
$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/python3
lrwxr-xr-x 1 ...
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iPhone backup symlink to external drive doesn't work after creation
I made an iPhone backup on my MacBook and then copied the backup folder to an external drive. I then created a symlink between the two using the following terminal command:
ln -s /Volumes/'TOSHIB EXT'/...
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Configure Spotlight to follow symlinks or search multiple paths
When using the search box in a Finder window, I would like to configure Spotlight so that a search will follow symlinks in the directory tree below the folder being searched.
For example, I symlinked ...
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How to change the backup location of multiple iOS devices using symlink?
This article outline the steps to take in order to move your iPhone or iPad backups to an external hard drive...
https://www.imore.com/how-move-your-iphone-or-ipad-backups-external-hard-drive
What I'm ...
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Delete Symlink from ~/Desktop
A while ago I deleted my ~/Desktop directory and then (using a symlink) pointed it to another directory (a subdirectory of my Google Drive directory). No, that my setup has changed, I would like to ...
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What is the purpose of pythonwrapper, and how can I distinguish it from an executable Python interpreter?
I have a Bourne script that takes a Python command (Python interpreter and arguments) and reroutes it to a custom Python interpreter. I want to make sure that modules that would be on the path of the ...
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How can I ensure photo folders are synced to iPhone in correct time order?
I'm syncing some local folders so they appear as albums "From my Mac" in my iPhone Photos app. It works, but the ordering is wrong.
The files in the local folders are actually symlinks into ...
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How to make iCloud Drive conveniently available to the shell
For whatever reason, Apple has decided to make "iCloud Drive" actually available at an impossible-to-remember and painful-to-type location.
Is there any better method than a symlink to make ...
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How can I find out which file(s) links to another file
This is a question about the reverse of a file link, which I can easily see in either Terminal or Get Info, ie. this
lrwxr-xr-x 1 Alex admin 35 7 Aug 23:35 envsubst -> ../Cellar/gettext/...
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ln symbolic link command error - iphone bu symbolic link troubleshoot
Having problem changing iphone backup location (following this tutorial https://www.iclarified.com/72786/how-to-change-your-iphone-backup-location-mac)
cannot interpret the error - any help ...
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How do I get my documents folder back from an external drive?
A while ago, I moved my Documents folder to my external drive to save space on my mac using this tutorial:
Open Terminal
Type in
cd /Users/Your User ID/
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ln -s /Volumes/External Drive Name/...
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Homebrew suggests there's always an existing formula for node installed?
I am trying to install node to use with reactjs. I started with node 16 but found it was incompatible with node-sass, so I've downgraded to node 14.
When installing (brew install node@14), it remains ...
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Allow symbolic links in SMB file sharing
I symlink directories I want to share into ~/Base/shared. I have enabled File Sharing (via SMB) on this directory, but symlinks are shown just as links and are not followed to their target (you can ...
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macOS Cannot Create Valid Symlink From Terminal Using Relative Paths
Using the following snippet it creates an invalid symlink. But according to other answers it should work fine.
# make a temp dir and save path to var.
# set dir (mktemp -d) # fish shell only!
dir=$(...
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Is there a way to view just symbolic links that I've created?
I've noticed my iCloud storage is full even though I only have roughly ~2GB of data in there. When I view my iCloud storage I notice that both my desktop and my documents seem to be listed twice - ...
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Replace symbolic links to libraries in executable with full path
Because I use homebrew to manage my packages but I compile ffmpeg by myself (I need to enable some components that is not included in the homebrew build), when homebrew upgrades one of its formulas ...
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Fixing symlinked /Users directory
I had my previous Mac Mini configured where /Users was a link to a separate volume on my dual disk system. I tried upgrading to Catalina on that machine and discovered that this link caused the ...
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What casues macOS sidebar to drop "favorites" (shortcuts to linked files/directories), other than macOS updates? How to prevent?
Every month or so my Macs drops all the favorites I have in the Finder windows (which also appear in Save/Open system dialogue windows). I takes time to redo them, and it is frustrating.
I know that ...
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How do I publish symlinks as regular files over SMB3? [duplicate]
I have this file that's dropped in a Mac via rsync, then Windows fetches it but it needs it to be named differently according to use, so the obvious answer, I thought, was to symlink it into all of ...
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hardlinks: does "original" mean anything?
man rdfind discusses the rules to decide which file is the original when it finds a duplicate.
When all the others are hard links to the "original," does that really mean anything? I ...
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How to create device file symlink
ok - bit convoluted, but I'm creating a tool that emulates a GPS device. Combination of C code and a tool called SOCAT. SOCAT reads a udp port and passes the data to my C Code which decodes the data ...
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Strange behaviour of symlink /var
I have a pretty new MacBook and got this from our central IT department pre-installed.
I experienced a problem, which I first thought was related to Terraform, but after investigation this seems to be ...
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Any way to make symlinks or aliases resolve over a network with macOS?
So I like to move my big folders from the home folder on the macOS System SSD to a hard drive and keep the SSD mainly for the system files and apps, a fairly common practice.
Problem is when I want to ...
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Create a symlink pointing to a variable filepath
I am using MacVim installed via homebrew. The absolute path to the app is /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/xxxxxx/MacVim.app, with xxxxxx the version number. MacVim version number is updated often.
Now I ...
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Trying to create a symbolic link in OS 10.14.6
I'm trying to install a symbolic link but when I enter the command I think should work ("sudo ln -s /Applications/harris/idl87/lib/xop/xop2.4/xop /usr/local/bin/xop"), I get no response at all. ????
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Under Catalina, should I use HFS+ or APFS when symlinking media folders to external drive
As I'm planning to install an SSD into my iMac with smaller capacity than the internal Fusion Drive its replacing, I will need to symlink my Movies, Music and Pictures folders to an external mains ...
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How to properly symlink files in the ~/Library/Preferences
Many apps store their settings in a file under ~/Library/Preferences. I want to version these files in my dotfiles repo. I like my dotfiles repo to be in its own tidy folder so my general approach to ...
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nvm (node version manager) nvm,node,npm not found
I did install nvm regarding the documentation, then installed the latest LTS node, nvm install 12.16.1 and globally installed yarn.
everything was working well, the node -v and npm -v and which node ...
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Is there a GUI difftool that does symlinks?
Let's say I have some directories with symlinks in them.
.
├── dirA
│ ├── file013
│ └── file212
└── dirB
├── file013
└── file212
2 directories, 4 files
The symlinks are pointing to ...
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