* Jeff Bankston (Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:17:05AM -0500)

Greetings. Is there a way to create a link to a fully qualified path on my local HD to a shortened name? For instance, the path /home/user/docs/projects/cust01/excel I'd like to simply refer to as /excel instead of typing in the entire path. Is this a symbolic link? The HD is already mounted when the system comes up, so mount isn't working.

The man pages doesn't have anything on "symbolic" - what am I missing?

What you descibe can be done as user root by typing ln -s /home/user/docs/projects/cust01/excel /excel or as the user by typing ln -s /home/user/docs/projects/cust01/excel ~/excel (note the leading tilde) but a much cleaner way is to use an alias or shell variable. assuming you are using a csh/tcsh type of sheel. edit the file .cshrc and add the folliwng alias cdexcel cd /home/user/docs/projects/cust01/excel setenv excel /home/user/docs/projects/cust01/excel This allows you to type cdexcel on the command line and to immediately go where you want to be. You can also refer to $excel as in vi $excel/summary.txt $excel/test.txt If you mainly use the desktop userinterface, you can add a bookmark to file:/home/user/docs/projects/cust01/excel to konqueror and work from there (or use the sidebar or ...) the possibilities are endless Gerhard, == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __O Can God create a stone that is so heavy, =`\<, that even He cannot lift it ? (=)/(=)