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Wow, I've never really used symlinks that much before, but this is really boggling: bash-3.2$ echo "weird" > original.txt bash-3.2$ mkdir originals bash-3.2$ mv original.txt originals/ bash-3.2$ cat originals/original.txt weird bash-3.2$ mkdir copies bash-3.2$ ln -s originals/original.txt copies/copy.txt bash-3.2$ cat copies/copy.txt cat: copies/copy.txt: No such file or directory bash-3.2$ ls copies/copy.txt copies/copy.txt bash-3.2$ ls -l copies/copy.txt lrwxr-xr-x 1 zach staff 22 Dec 22 01:23 copies/copy.txt -> originals/original.txt bash-3.2$ cat originals/original.txt weird bash-3.2$ cat copies/copy.txt cat: copies/copy.txt: No such file or directory bash-3.2$ cd copies/ bash-3.2$ cat copy.txt cat: copy.txt: No such file or directory Why can't I cat the symlink in the copies directory? If I make the symlink from inside the copies/, I can cat it just fine. If I make the symlink in the current directory, I can also cat it just fine. If I make the symlink in the current directory and then move it to copies/, I get "copies/copy.txt: No such file or directory".

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