How to create symbolic link in Mabox Linux (Manjaro) [with screenshots]

Sometimes happens, that you've installed software into .. some 'strange' directory, for example into you /home folder or /home/$USER/Download folder. And it means that you have to go into that folder and run a command. It's not comfortable. Linux has solution! You can use command-line utility ls to create a link between two files.

Rule is very simple:

$ ls -s <path_to_source_file> <path_to_link>

Let's look on real example in my system:

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Written by Administrator on Thursday April 9, 2020

How to create a link to a program to launch it in terminal in Solus OS Linux

Just imagine you have installed a program and want to launch it in terminal with just the name of the program.

For example, I have downloaded a PaleMoon browser and not it's stored in:

$ /home/edustorage/Downloads/palemoon/palemoon

To launch this program, I have to go to :

$ cd /home/edustorage/Downloads/palemoon

and run a command:

$ sudo ./palemoon

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Written by Administrator on Tuesday April 7, 2020