Will a shortcut work in Fedora the way it does in Windows?

[twochannel]

I am using Fedora as a music server. The media player builds a library from the contents of a single folder. I need to expand my storage to other drives and folders.

In Windows I use the same media player (Squeezeplayer) and simply place shortcuts in the scanned folder that allows the library to be built from locations that are outside of that folder as well.

Is it possible to do the same in Fedora?

[JEO]

Maybe symbolic links will do what you want. To create them, in a terminal window type

ln -s <target> <link_name>

[marriedto51]

Agreed, symbolic links sound like what you want. Graphical file browsers should be able to create them for you if you don't want to use the command line. For example, if you drag and drop a file icon with Dolphin you will get a menu with three choices: "move here"; "copy here"; and "link here". (The last one is what you need.)

[twochannel]

I thank you both for your suggestions!

The distro I am using does not have a GUI at bootup, just a command prompt. So far I have had to make my adjustments with command lines and that has been a bit of a struggle since there is zero tolerance for syntax error.

I have been wishing for a file manager GUI for other maintenance so Dolphin might be the trick. Can I install it on a Fedora 11 like mine?

[Hlingler]

You can't install Dolphin (or most GUI file managers) without installing KDE (or whatever matching desktop Environment), and starting the X11 GUI.

Perhaps Midnight Commander text-mode file manager (or equivalent) is more what you want? Not sure if it has "drag-and-drop" or some similar easy-to-use linking feature though.
su
yum install mc

Summary     : User-friendly text console file manager and visual shell
Description :
Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a file manager, only
with many more features. It is a text mode application, but it also
includes mouse support. Midnight Commander's best features are its
ability to FTP, view tar and zip files, and to poke into RPMs for
specific files.

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P.S. NOTE also that you (the user logged into terminal and running link commands) must have read and entry/execute permissions on the folders/files to which you are linking. We just had a discussion about this... .