Overview for symlinks

How to remove symbolic link in Mabox Linux (Manjaro)

Before we remove a symbolic link (also called symlink) in Mabox Linux, we have to ensure, that link really exists. In Linux you (normally) don't see file extension, so, first, check, what contains symlink:

I have (I hope, we will check it) I have a symlink "/usr/bin/node", because I write

$ node --version

and receive this output:

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Written by Administrator on Thursday April 9, 2020

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