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SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin (for OS X 10.3.9 through 10.5.8) and software service (for OS X 10.6 or later) that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. SymbolicLinker does this by adding a contextual menu item to the Finder that generates symbolic links to the selected files. SymbolicLinker 2.2 nickzman released this on Nov 11, 2020 SymbolicLinker now runs on Apple Silicon Macs. Added a Catalan localization.

  1. Symbolic links are similar to aliases, in the sense that they are shortcuts that link to a specific file or folder.
  2. I have a linker symbol (let's call it BASEADDR), defined in a linker command script, which contains the address of the longword after a longword that I need to use (e.g. I need to check longword at address 0x0000000C and BASEADDR is equal to 0x00000010). So in the code I try to use BASEADDR and subtract 4 from it to access 0x0000000C.

A symbolic link is a file-system object that points to another file system object. The object being pointed to is called the target.

Symbolic links are transparent to users; the links appear as normal files or directories, and can be acted upon by the user or application in exactly the same manner.

Symbolic links are designed to aid in migration and application compatibility with UNIX operating systems. Microsoft has implemented its symbolic links to function just like UNIX links.

For more information, see the following topics.

In this section

TopicDescription
Symbolic Link Effects on File Systems Functions
How symbolic links affect standard file functions that use path names to specify one or more files.
Programming Considerations
Programming considerations for working with symbolic links.
Creating Symbolic Links
Create symbolic links that use either an absolute or relative path by using the CreateSymbolicLink function.

Supported Operating Systems

Symbolic links are available in NTFS starting with Windows Vista.

Symbolic links are similar to aliases, in the sense that they are shortcuts that link to a specific file or folder. But symbolic links are often more useful than aliases: For example, if you put an alias in your Dropbox folder, it will sync just the alias file; put a sym link in that folder, and Dropbox will sync the original file that link points to. And aliases won’t work in OS X’s Unix-based tools, including Terminal; sym links will.

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The Finder makes it easy to create aliases (Control-click, select Make Alias), but not to make symbolic links. For that, you usually have to turn to Terminal. We’ve shown you one way to create sym links within the OS X GUI, using an AppleScript application. But MacOSXHints reader RickoKid came up with another way, using a shell script and Automator.

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Start by opening Automator and selecting Service from the list of templates. Next, select Files or Folders from the Service Receives Selected drop-down and Finder.app from In. Drag the Run Shell Script action from the Utilities section of the Actions library. Select As Arguments from the Pass Input menu, then paste the following script into the Run Shell Script window (replacing any text that might be there already):

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Below that, drag the View Results action from the same library. Save the workflow (it should automatically be added to ~/Library/Services), giving it whatever name you want (Create Sym Link, for example). That done, you should be able to Control-click on a file in the Finder, then select your service from the Services submenu; a sym link (with the word link appended to the filename) should appear in the same folder as the original file.

If you don’t want to do all that copying-and-pasting, you can download the service and save it directly to the Services folder. You could, of course, also make that earlier AppleScript we told you about into a service. Or you could download a dedicated app like SymbolicLinker () to do the job.

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