Of course, created symbolic links sometime need to be undone. The practical uses are countless, and making symbolic links will work in any unix OS, so beyond Mac OS X you could apply the same idea to linux or FreeBSD. Soft links have tons of potential uses, and if you’ve been a longtime reader of OSXDaily you’ve undoubtedly come across them before in other articles, from gaining easier access to the powerful airport command, placing mounted NTFS volumes onto the desktop, to moving local iTunes iPhone backup folders to external drives, to adding a Trash can icon to the user desktop like retro Mac OS versions, or even placing an application cache folder onto a RAM disk for ultra-fast data access and caching. This would allow the user to type ‘command’ and access the binary, without having to prefix the command execution with the entire path. Sudo ln -s /A/Deeply/Buried/Path/amework/Resources/command /usr/sbin/commmand As mentioned before, this behaves much like an alias.Īnother example would be to offer easier access to an otherwise buried binary by linking the command to /usr/sbin/ If such a directory and drive existed, this would basically allow all files that would typically appear in the user downloads folder to go to the other mounted volume instead, essentially offloading the storage burden to that separate drive, while still preserving the appearance of a ~/Downloads/ folder for the user. That will link the active users ~/Downloads/ folder to a directory named “Downloads” on the mounted drive called “Storage”. Ln -s /Volumes/Storage/Downloads/ ~/Downloads/
That will point /path/to/link to the original location, in this case /path/to/original/ Example Syntax for Making Soft Links at the Terminalįor example, to create a symbolic link for the user Downloads folder which links it to a directory on a separate mounted drive, syntax may look like the following: The basic syntax for creating a symbolic link (or soft link) is as follows:
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