Hard links and symlinks are very different, but you make them similarly. On the command line, you use the ln command, in Interrogator you use a variation of the commands to move or copy. In each case, an option chooses between hard and sym.
~ % cd /cake /cake % ls ireland/ louis otto /cake % ln -s ../louis ireland/saint # no -s for hardlink /cake % ls -l ireland total 8 lrwxr-xr-x 1 allan admin 8 Jul 11 02:04 saint@ -> ../louis /cake %
total 55 keystrokes
1) Go to the /cake directory.
^/ c a k e /
(The first ^/ goes to the root directory. Use cmd/ on Mac.
Then you select cake by typing.
The second / opens the cake directory.)
2) Select the file louis, copy its name to the clipboard with the
standard Copy keystroke.
l o ^C
(Type just enough letters to pick louis out from the crowd.)
3) Go to the ireland directory and Link the file there, using
a special version of the Paste keystroke.
X11: i r / altL shift^altV
Mac: i r / ^L ^cmdV
(Use H instead of L for a hardlink instead of a symlink.)
4) Enter Rename mode to change the name however you want.
X11: shift^altR
Mac: ^cmdR
You are left in Rename mode so you can change the name.
s a i n t
(Actually you can use any keystrokes you want, such as arrow keys.)
total 19 keystrokes and 5 modifiers
For more details about the copy and paste commands in Interrogator, see the Copying discussion.
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