Re: link

Michael Havens wrote:
> There is a folder called 'Documets' in the home directory and one also in
> 'Desktop'. The existing files were moved from the folder in Desktop and
> placed in home's Documents and then deleted. Some programs think Documents
> is in home while some think it is in the other file. I want the files that go
> to ~/Desktop/Documents to be placed into <home>/Documents. What i am thinking
> is that if you put a link in ~/Desktop/Documents..... After reading the man
> page for pipe and for link it seems that neither of them will do what is
> desired.

Just empty one of them, then make a symbolic link to the other in its
place. Example:

rmdir ~/Desktop/Documents
ln -s ~/Documents ~/Desktop/Documents

And whenever a program goes looking into ~/Desktop/Documents, it'll
really be seeing the files in ~/Documents.

-David Bendit
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