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I'm trying to make a symlink to a directory if it exists only and cannot figure out how.

I tried various ideas I found and none worked. Most notable idea that i thought would do the job was to use ln -s ls /path to test the dir for ln but it did not work or I'm not doing it right.

This is the basic symlink command I'm trying to condition.

ln -s ~/public_html/images ./images
transilvlad
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[ -d ~/public_html/images ] && ln -s ~/public_html/images ./images
jj33
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On Ubuntu use

ls ./public_html/images && ln -s ~/public_html/images ./images

The first command (list content of ./public_html/images) will fail if ./public_html/images does not exist. Due to double ampersand (&&) the second command (create soft link) will only run if first command succeeds.

Mikhail Minin
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