For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

Links in Linux are like shortcuts: references to a file that don't duplicate it. A symbolic link references by filename but ...

I don't think it indexes that. But you can find it with the find command. #! /bin/tcsh -f # # spot (tcsh script) # - tcsh script to search for symbolic links using Max OS X's Spotlight index. # # ...