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Authored by: Anonymous on Mar 30, '01 08:23:20AM

When I tried your comments, I found that I could create the symbolic link to various directories in my home folder so that I could use them in the Dock... however, if I didn't use -s, it told me that the operation was not permitted... why would that be? Also, how can I reference files in terminal that have spaces in them, i.e, Dock Additions... could only get it to be recognized by Dock_Additions in Finder...

Thanks



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Authored by: Anonymous on Mar 30, '01 09:49:39AM
To accommodate spaces use the single quote character (or, really the foot mark?) -- (') around the entire path.
ln -s 'ABC Directory/your folder name' 'soft link name'
In Beta, you could use the backslash right before the space to signify a space that would be literally interpreted. (*Can't show an example; the backslashes get removed when published on this post.)

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