Dec 16, '02 08:00:08AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
% ln -s /Applications ~/Desktop/ApplicationsThen click on your Desktop and you'll have a pretty "Application" and "Home" icon.
% ln -s ~/ ~/Desktop/Home
[Editor's note: The other big advantage of symbolic links over aliases is found when you use the Terminal. If you try "cd ~/Desktop/Applications" it will fail if you created an alias in the Finder, but it will work perfectly if you created a symbolic link instead. I'm not sure if this is a bug or feature or if my machine is just messed up, but I first noticed it with a Downloads folder that I keep on another drive. I had created an alias on the desktop, then tried to 'cd' into the alias to compile a UNIX app I downloaded. Once I changed it to a symlink, everything was fine.]
