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.

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 ...

When Apple made the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, one of the under-the-hood consequences was that Mac aliases—tiny files that point to other files—lost some functionality. Or to put it more ...

I had to emergency upgrade to Catalina yesterday to diagnose a problem reported by one of my users and have discovered that the filesystem changes have completely wrecked my workflow, simply because I ...

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 ...