I have 1 ssd and 1 hdd in my iMac and symlinked some data folders to my hdd, as was advised to me at the time. Is it possible to recognise in Finder which folders have been symlinked? Or is there a way to recognise them (Terminal command?)
Thanks in advance
Hans
In the Terminal
ls -l /Users/me/tmp
will show if they are symbolic links.
For example
lrwxr-xr-x 1 me staff 33 Jan 5 17:58 this-is-a-symlink -> /Users/me/tmp/tmp.fred.dir
The leading 'l' in lrwxr-xr-x means symbolic link. And the -> points from the symbolic link name to the actual file location
In the Finder a symbolic link will have the same icon as an Alias, which is a small arrow in the lower left corner of the file icon.
You can also use
find /path/to/starting/direcory -type l
to find all the symbolic links. -type l (el) is for symbolic links.
The find command traverses all subdirectories under the starting point, so if you point this at your home directory, it will look at every sub-folder, and sub-sub-folder, etc... starting in your home folder for symbolic links.
In the Terminal
ls -l /Users/me/tmp
will show if they are symbolic links.
For example
lrwxr-xr-x 1 me staff 33 Jan 5 17:58 this-is-a-symlink -> /Users/me/tmp/tmp.fred.dir
The leading 'l' in lrwxr-xr-x means symbolic link. And the -> points from the symbolic link name to the actual file location
In the Finder a symbolic link will have the same icon as an Alias, which is a small arrow in the lower left corner of the file icon.
You can also use
find /path/to/starting/direcory -type l
to find all the symbolic links. -type l (el) is for symbolic links.
The find command traverses all subdirectories under the starting point, so if you point this at your home directory, it will look at every sub-folder, and sub-sub-folder, etc... starting in your home folder for symbolic links.
Bob, this is great.
Thanks a lot, you solved my question.
Hans
Some question about symbolic links