When you work with the command line, you’ll notice that you cannot navigate “into” aliases created with the Finder when in Terminal. For example, you cannot issue a cd command into an alias, because ...

Aliases in macOS are easy-to-create shortcuts that maintain a connection with the original file or folder even when relocated ...

Symbolic links (also called a soft link) are a very important tool to understand in Linux. These are special files that point to other files, similar to shortcuts in Windows or aliases in macOS.

Symbolic links, or symlinks, are versatile tools supported by major operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, and Ubuntu. Android and iOS offer limited symlink capabilities, usually for ...

For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

When Apple made the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, one of the under-the-hood consequences was that Mac aliases—tiny files that point to other files—lost some functionality. Or to put it more ...

If you come from the world of Windows, you undoubtedly understand the concept of a shortcut. In the Linux world, shortcuts do exist, but they're generally referred to as symbolic links, or symlinks.

You wouldn't know it just by looking, but Mac OS X has two types of aliases. The first are the traditional aliases, which work the same way they do in Mac OS 9. The second type are called symbolic ...

I had to emergency upgrade to Catalina yesterday to diagnose a problem reported by one of my users and have discovered that the filesystem changes have completely wrecked my workflow, simply because I ...