ln -s [one]
[two]the arguments are done in the same order as if you would have done it with cp.
Yes, it really is that easy. You can stop worrying about it now.
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ln -s [one]
[two]the arguments are done in the same order as if you would have done it with cp.
Yes, it really is that easy. You can stop worrying about it now.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •gigantos
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •how come this never sticks. I never managed to make this connection for some strange reason.
So instead, my approach for years was always "ln -s a b && ls -l".
And now, I just imagine myself doing the above, and then remember that "b" always came out.
It means I spend a few seconds before running the command, every time.
I never had this issue for cp, wonder why
Sheldon Cooper
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •I always imagine softlinks as text file containing the source path.
i.e.
ln -s [source] [dest]
as
echo [source] > [dest]
Helps understand relative path symlinks easily
Joachim Wiberg
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •`cp one two` copies one to two` `ln -s one two` makes two a symlink of one; yes, the second is "made like the first" with that command, and it's logical that the "new" thing is the second argument.
There's an argument to be made that it's logical to say "I want a link named foo to point at bar" instead of "I want a link for bar that is called foo".
ln's straightforward, but command "etymology", for lack of a better word, matters.
Chris Lewis
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Accept purpose.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •a useful memnonic for both 'ln' and 'cp' is
"What you want, where you want it."
Uwe Caspari
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Windows User: what's cp?
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