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rated 0 times [ 8] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 9226 / 1 Year ago, tue, may 16, 2023, 12:37:19

I want to create a symbolic link from my home directory to Dropbox, excluding Videos.

This is what I know:

ln -s /home/pt/ '/home/pt/Dropbox'

What should I do? What will happen if I'd like to delete the symbolic link?

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answered 1 Year ago lasagnerhead · Accepted Answer

It would be better if you create symlinks for each file/directory instead.

mkdir /home/pt/Dropbox/pt

for d in /home/pt/*; do ln -s "$d" '/home/pt/Dropbox/pt/'; done

Then delete the link Videos and Dropbox

rm /home/pt/Dropbox/pt/Videos

rm /home/pt/Dropbox/pt/Dropbox

To delete every link, use

rm /home/pt/Dropbox/pt/*

rmdir /home/pt/Dropbox/pt