One of the things that makes me have to fire up the Terminal in Mac OS X is to create symbolic links. In Snow Leopard though, it is possible to use Automator to create a Service so you can simply create the links using a contextual menu in the Finder, and put it much like an alias wherever you need it.
You can download the Automator Service here. Once downloaded, open it in Automator, then 'Save As...' to save it in your ~/Library/Services folder.
The work in the Service is primarily done using the following bash shell script:
for f in "$@" do curFolder=`dirname "$f"` linkFile=`basename "$f"` fileSuffix="link" fileExists=`ls -d "$f $fileSuffix"` fileNumber=0 until [ $fileExists=="" ]; do let fileNumber+=1 fileSuffix="link $fileNumber" fileExists=`ls -d "$f $fileSuffix"` done echo "$f $fileSuffix" ln -s "$f" "$f $fileSuffix" done
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