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Linux Symbolic link

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:31 pm
by Zim
To setup the symbolic link requred for ut99 type the folling from the system folder.
ln -s libSDL-1.1.so.0 libSDL-1.2.so.0

If a link exsists use the ls -l command to check whether a given file is a symbolic link, and to find the file or directory that symbolic link points to.


Remove Symbolic Links with rm
To delete a symlink, invoke the rm command followed by the symbolic link name as an argument:
rm symlink_name

Remove Symbolic Links with unlink
The unlink command deletes a given file. Unlike rm, unlink accepts only a single argument.

To delete a symbolic link, run the unlink command followed by the symlink name as an argument:

unlink symlink_name