I always forget this. I often want to make a short name for a directory with a long name. The syntax for that is
ln -s longdirectoryname shortname
where the long name is the one that exists and the short name is the one I want to create. Do it in the directory where you want the short name to be (like the home folder).
At http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/172/create_a_symbolic_link_in_unix_solaris_linux/ there is a handy mnemonic (if such it is): ln -s works just like "cp" or "mv".
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