"Wu Jianglin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what i want is to override the existent symbol link java.
You might try the -T (--no-target-directory) option of GNU ln 5.3.0 or later. > it does work on others unix platform. Which Unix platform was that? Solaris 10 'ln' behaves like GNU ln here. For example: $ mkdir a b $ ln -s a s $ ls -l total 6 drwxrwxr-x 2 eggert faculty 512 Dec 5 22:47 a drwxrwxr-x 2 eggert faculty 512 Dec 5 22:47 b lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert faculty 1 Dec 5 22:47 s -> a $ ln -sf b s $ ls -l . a .: total 6 drwxrwxr-x 2 eggert faculty 512 Dec 5 22:47 a drwxrwxr-x 2 eggert faculty 512 Dec 5 22:47 b lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert faculty 1 Dec 5 22:47 s -> a a: total 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert faculty 1 Dec 5 22:47 b -> b _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
