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.

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. # # ...

When you print a file with the lp command, a symbolic link is created from the file to the /usr/spool directory. When you pipe output to the lp command, the output is copied under the /usr/spool ...