[CentOS] Overwrite target of ln

[Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)]

On 05/03/2008, Michael D. Kralka <michael.kralka at kvs.com> wrote:
> Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
>  > On 05/03/2008, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
>  > <matt.baluyos.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> On 05/03/2008, Garrick Staples <garrick at usc.edu> wrote:
>
> >>  I have just tried using a target as a file and it does seem to work
>  >>  with the -f option. It's only when the target is a directory that it
>  >>  fails:
>  >>
>  >>  $ ll
>  >>  drwxrwxr-x 2 matt matt 4096 Mar  4 14:34 dir1
>  >>  drwxrwxr-x 2 matt matt 4096 Mar  4 14:34 dir2
>  >>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt    4 Mar  4 14:35 link -> dir1
>  >>
>  >>  $ ln -s dir2 link
>  >
>  > That should be:
>  >
>  > $ ln -sf dir2 link
>
>
> from the ln man page:
>
>  -n, --no-dereference
>         treat destination that is a symlink to a directory as if it
>         were a normal file

Great! Working now. Thanks.

I've read the man page but didn't understand that option to be what
I'm looking for.

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