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ns_symlink(n) 5.0.0a naviserver "NaviServer Built-in Commands"

Name

ns_symlink - Create a symbolic link

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Synopsis

Description

This command creates a symbolic link named filename2 that points to the file or directory specified by filename1. If the link fails, a Tcl error is generated, unless -nocomplain is specified. This is a legacy command from when Tcl did not have this functionality. It is now recommended you use Tcl's file link command instead. The reason is that we have still this command is that the Tcl file link command always creates link target with absolute path to the linked file.

COMMANDS

ns_symlink ?-nocomplain? ?--? filename1 filename2

EXAMPLES

 ns_symlink $file1 $file2

is equivalent to:

 file link -symbolic $file1 $file2

Keywords

filesystem, global built-in