ln basic question from a beginner:
I have some legacy code that looks for a series of files at a location
/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/
for example
/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/abc.xml
the files are really at a location
/z/w/v/d/e/f/g/h/i/
I tried to link /z/w/v to /a/b/c like
mkdir /a/b/c
ln -s /z/w/v /a/b/c
but when I cd /a/b/c I end up one level higher.
Is it possible to ln the parent dirs like this or I just have to link the files?
The problem is that the directory /a/b/c already exists, because of the mkdir. So when you make the link, it thinks you want to make a link in the c, not from c itself. So it's as if you did:
ln -s /z/w/v /a/b/c/v
Do it like this:
mkdir /a/b
ln -s /z/w/v /a/b/c