Create a symbolic link of directory in Ubuntu

Question

Below is my code for creating a symlink of a directory   sudo ln -s  usr local nginx conf   etc nginx   I already created the directory  etc nginx   I just want the contents of the source directory   usr local nginx conf   to be in the contents of the target directory   etc nginx   But when I execute the code   etc nginx contains a directory called conf  instead of the contents of conf  That directory contains the contents I want  but in the wrong location   Why did it put a directory in the target folder  instead of just putting the contents of the directory in the target folder

User · Accepted Answer

This is the behavior of ln if the second arg is a directory  It places a link to the first arg inside it  If you want  etc nginx to be the symlink  you should remove that directory first and run that same command

User · Answer

In script is usefull something like this   if     -d  etc nginx    then ln -s  usr local nginx conf   etc nginx  gt   dev null 2 gt  amp 1  fi   it prevents before re-create  bad  looped symlink after re-run script

User · Answer

That s what ln is documented to do when the target already exists and is a directory  If you want  etc nginx to be a symlink rather than contain a symlink  you had better not create it as a directory first

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