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Creating Symbolic Links on Command Line

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Command Line Basics Series

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1. Moving Around the Command Line FREE 13m
2. Copy, Move, Delete on Command Line FREE 11m
3. Dealing with Command Line Permissions FREE 16m
4. Using Zip and Tar on Command Line FREE 10m
5. Creating Symbolic Links on Command Line FREE 7m
6. Using SSH and SCP FREE 7m
7. Finding Files on Command Line FREE 8m
8. Using the grep command FREE 14m
9. Introduction to Vi/Vim editor FREE 10m
10. Editing with Vi/Vim editor FREE 4m
11. More Editing with Vi/Vim editor FREE 7m
12. Handy Command Line Shortcuts FREE 9m
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This video shows how to use the magical symbolic link, or symlink. These are basically a handy *nix way to create shortcuts. They come in particularly handy if you want to organize code for your websites outside of the web server's document root and that is the example we use here.

Note: this video was originally released November 23, 2009 on Lullabot.com.

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