Symlink generates empty alias file?

Question

I'm trying to create a folder that is going to contain all files that are in another folder.

This is the tree structure. I want to symlink source to target.

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├── source-folder
    └── source <-- source folder
└── controllers
    └── another-folder
        └── yet-another-folder
            └── target <-- target folder

I tried

ln -s source-folder/source controllers/another-folder/yet-another-folder/target

but it only creates an empty alias file.

How do I create a folder that contains the same data that is in the source-folder/source folder?

Answer 1

I solved it by placing myself in yet-another-folder and doing;

ln -s ../../../source-folder/source target

So I'm placed in the target's parent folder and the specified source path is relative to where I'm placed.

Answer 2

Better to create symlinks with full paths; it then works as expected