For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

When you work with the command line, you’ll notice that you cannot navigate “into” aliases created with the Finder when in Terminal. For example, you cannot issue a cd command into an alias, because ...

Symbolic links (also called a soft link) are a very important tool to understand in Linux. These are special files that point to other files, similar to shortcuts in Windows or aliases in macOS.

If you come from the world of Windows, you undoubtedly understand the concept of a shortcut. In the Linux world, shortcuts do exist, but they're generally referred to as symbolic links, or symlinks.

You wouldn't know it just by looking, but Mac OS X has two types of aliases. The first are the traditional aliases, which work the same way they do in Mac OS 9. The second type are called symbolic ...

Ok, so a script we were using to auto-update our mail virus scan plugin with new definitions went and created a symbolic link in a directory to the directory it the symbolic link was in. Anyway, long ...