4 Mar
2008
4 Mar
'08
2:52 p.m.
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
On 05/03/2008, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) matt.baluyos.lists@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/03/2008, Garrick Staples garrick@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
Cheers, Michael