Create a Symbolic Link of Directory in Ubuntu

Create a symbolic link of directory in Ubuntu

This is the behavior of ln if the second arg is a directory. It places a link to the first arg inside it. If you want /etc/nginx to be the symlink, you should remove that directory first and run that same command.

Symbolic Links in Ubuntu Recursively link to files in one directory to another

Try this:

cd /var/www/xxx
for a in * ; do ln -s /var/www/xxx/$a /var/www/yyy/$a ; done

This will symlink all the files one-by-one.

It's a bit messy, though. If you have multiple sites sitting on the same codebase but requiring different configuration files, you should really teach your framework how co-ordinate that for you. It's not really difficult, but does require more thinking than I can spare for this reply, I'm sorry.

Create symbolic link of a folder

You can create it like this without the need of creating something before:

 ln -s /usr/local/var /var/run

How to create a link to a directory on linux

Symbolic or soft link (files or directories, more flexible and self documenting)

#     Source                             Link
ln -s /home/jake/doc/test/2000/something /home/jake/xxx

Hard link (files only, less flexible and not self documenting)

#   Source                             Link
ln /home/jake/doc/test/2000/something /home/jake/xxx

More information: man ln

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/home/jake/xxx is like a new directory. To avoid "is not a directory: No such file or directory" error, as @trlkly comment, use relative path in the target, that is, using the example:

1. cd /home/jake/
2. ln -s /home/jake/doc/test/2000/something xxx

Create symbolic link with sub-directories

Assuming both /usr/local/nfs/etc and /usr/local/gemini/application exist as directories, your command

ln -s /usr/local/nfs/etc /usr/local/gemini/application

creates a symbolic link etc in /usr/local/gemini/application referencing /usr/local/nfs/etc.

If you want to see application and its content in /usr/local/nfs/etc you have to swap the command line arguments:

ln -s /usr/local/gemini/application /usr/local/nfs/etc

This will create a symbolic link application in /usr/local/nfs/etc.

See man ln

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