Creating shortcuts

[Nat Gross]

Ankush Grover wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:55:23 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 13:18 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
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>>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>>Nat Gross wrote:
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>>>>>2. re: shortcuts. How do I get my link to display the true path? I
>>>>>have a symlink to /usr/share/xxx. When I browse this (also at a
>>>>>terminal prompt) , it shows the path as
>>>>>"/home/nat/Desktop/theLinkName", but many times I prefer to have it
>>>>>show the true path, "/usr/share/xxx".
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>>>>Re: appearance on the desktop; no idea (I never create shortcuts on
>>>>the desktop myself - just out of habit rather than because I think
>>>>it's a bad thing to do [which I don't]). At the terminal prompt, if
>>>>you use the "-L" option to "ls", it'll show you details of the file
>>>>being linked to rather than the details of the link itself.
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>>>>Paul.
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>>>I meant something else. If you cd into the link, or if you click on the
>>>link from a file browser,  although the link target is indeed displayed,
>>>the path displayed in the browser (or as part of the PROMPT in terminal)
>>>is the link name, not the real target path.
>>>(Desktop was just an example. This is true regardless of location.)
>>>[By the way, this is not a high-priority question. Just a quickie, if
>>>possible.]
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>>You could fix this at the command line by using "cd `pwd`". You'd have
>>to fiddle with aliases for "cd" in your ~/.bashrc to have this happen
>>automatically.
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>>Paul.
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>You can create shortcuts like this 
>S=/usr/share/xxxx
>export S
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>in the .bash_profile
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>S=/usr/share/xxx
>export S
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>whenever you type $S on the command prompt you will go to the
>directory /usr/share/xxx.
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>Regards
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>Ankush
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That's neat. Thanks.
-nat