> Sorry about this primitive question, sometimes I get confused about > the order. As I have found online, the description is
> ln -s /path/to/file path/to/symlink. > However, this still confuses me. Which is which in my example? Yeah, that's pretty poor wording. I gave up on it a long time ago. > Can someone enlighten me? TIA. I remember that it's much like cp, as is ln for hard links: cp file-that-exists new-file ln file-that-exists new-directory-entry ln -s file-that-exists new-symlink Where "file-that-exists" really refers to a "directory entry" and the file, or "bag of bits" that the directory entry points to. Or, in the symlink case, "file-that-exists" doesn't have to exist. Try not to remember that, except when it's important. $ rm -f foo bar $ ln -s foo bar $ ls -l foo bar ls: cannot access foo: No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 werme users 3 Nov 14 16:22 bar -> foo $ cat bar cat: bar: No such file or directory $ echo foobar > foo $ cat bar foobar -Ric -- r...@wermenh.com http://WermeNH.com/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
