{"id":2443,"date":"2018-03-13T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2021-11-14T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T13:45:48","slug":"easiest-method-create-symlink-symbolic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/easiest-method-create-symlink-symbolic\/","title":{"rendered":"SymLink – real mirror of file\/folder (better than Shortcut)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SymLink –\u00a0 Best & Alternative solution to Shortcuts
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\u00a0(Windows 10,8,7, Linux, Ubuntu…)<\/sup><\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Probably, many of developers (either C#<\/code>,\u00a0PHP<\/code>\u00a0or\u00a0anything…) have used same files (their “library files”) to build different projects.\u00a0 However, in most cases, do you copy-paste your library file in multiple projects<\/strong>? If so, when you want to update something in your library,\u00a0then you have to update all copies<\/strong> of your library-file across all project ?!<\/p>\n

The best way is to create a mirror of file, <\/b>called\u00a0symlink. It’s like a shortcut, but<\/strong>\u00a0symlink is treated as the real\u00a0 file\u00a0<\/strong>(as opposed to regular SHORTCUT<\/em> of file).\u00a0 So, when you update symlink-file, it updates all it’s symlinked mirror-files!<\/p>\n

How to create symlinks<\/h1>\n

Instead of manually executing terminal<\/code> commands, you can use\u00a0 one from this open-source scripts:<\/p>\n

A)\u00a0Symlink-Creator.bat<\/a><\/span><\/code> – Instruction is simple:\u00a0 Drag & drop file\/folder (you can drag multiple items) onto that file and input the TARGET location. That’s all ( if you see “insufficient privileges” error, at first apply this fix<\/b><\/a> ) Note: you should symlink each file using that command ! COPY & PASTE the symlinked file doesn’t create symlinks!<\/span>
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OR<\/p>\n

B) You can use a better,\u00a0feature-rich GUI app<\/a> , with ability of “Smart-copy” (to avoid the above “red<\/span>-noted” issue)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SymLink –\u00a0 Best & Alternative solution to Shortcuts \u00a0(Windows 10,8,7, Linux, Ubuntu…) Probably, many of developers (either C#,\u00a0PHP\u00a0or\u00a0anything…) have used same files (their “library files”) to build different projects.\u00a0 However,(Continue Reading)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coding","category-windows-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}