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If you symlink to an *existing* file, the symlink is changed to an absolute path. However, if you symlink to a *non*existing file (or, a to file whose pathname contains a symlink), then you get a relative link: cd mkdir Tmp1 mkdir Tmp2 touch Tmp1/file1 cd Tmp2 ln -s ../Tmp1/file1 f1 # linking...

If you symlink to an *existing* file, the symlink is changed to an absolute path. However, if you symlink to a *non*existing file (or, a to file whose pathname contains a symlink), then you get a relative link: cd mkdir Tmp1 mkdir Tmp2 touch Tmp1/file1 cd Tmp2 ln -s ../Tmp1/file1 f1 ln -s...