Hard link '~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs' to ~/iCloud
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20-02-2021 - |
Question
Is it possible to do this at all? I've tried the following command:
ln /Users/Rowan/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents /Users/Rowan/iCloud
which results in:
ln: /Users/Rowan/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents: Is a directory
I can't seem to find how to add an argument to ln
in order to 'allow' directories.
Solution
ln(1) on OS X does not support folder hard links. A symlink would work fine instead.
ln -s /Users/Rowan/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents /Users/Rowan/iCloud
If you really want a hard link, you can install coreutils with Homebrew and use
gln -d /Users/Rowan/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents /Users/Rowan/iCloud
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