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Re: Soft link confusion

From Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Soft link confusion
Date 2021-08-30 15:20 +0200
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On 29/08/2021 21:10, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> The syntax is:  ln -s TARGET LINKNAME
> 
> I.e. you specify the existing thing first, and the name of the link that
> you want to create last.

If you need a mnemonic, this is just like cp.

$ cp ORIGINAL NEW

creates NEW as a copy from ORIGINAL. Similarly,

$ ln -s ORIGINAL NEW

creates a link NEW pointing to ORIGINAL.

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br

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Soft link confusion "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719@gmail.com> - 2021-08-30 02:00 +0200
  Re: Soft link confusion Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-30 02:20 +0200
    Re: Soft link confusion Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2021-08-30 15:20 +0200
      Re: Soft link confusion Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-08-30 15:40 +0200
  Re: Soft link confusion David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-08-30 02:40 +0200
    Re: Soft link confusion "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719@gmail.com> - 2021-08-30 16:50 +0200
      Re: Soft link confusion Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 12:20 +0200

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