[ale] Is this just a bad link?

[Phil Turmel]

Use readlink to find out where it is pointing.

On 7/30/19 12:52 PM, Chris Fowler via Ale wrote:
> I bought my wife a new laptop, with no CD drive, and am now copying a 
> program off of CD onto USB so she can install a program.
> 
> I see a link, but I can't read it under Linux.  What is it?  Do I need 
> to load a module?
> 
> 
> 
> [10332.385222] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
> [10332.385251] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
> [10332.387979] ISO 9660 Extensions: IEEE_P1282
> chris at mechonis:~$ cd /mnt/usb/
> chris at mechonis:/mnt/usb$ ls -l
> ls: cannot read symbolic link 'applications': Input/output error
> total 114892
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 501 dialout 13 Feb 25 2013 applications
> -rw----rw- 1 501 dialout 93 Sep 20 2012 autorun.inf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root dialout 0 Feb 25 2013 comappletimemachine.supported
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 501 dialout 1314 Dec 21 2012 copyright.txt
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Feb 20 2013 drivers
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Feb 25 2013 dropdmgbackground
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Feb 25 2013 'silhouette studioapp'
> -rw-r--r-- 1 501 dialout 117640072 Feb 25 2013 silhouette_studio.exe
> chris at mechonis:/mnt/usb$ cat applications
> cat: applications: Input/output error
> chris at mechonis:/mnt/usb$ file applications
> applications: unreadable symlink `applications' (Input/output error)
> chris at mechonis:/mnt/usb$  
> 
> 
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