At 07:41 AM 2/1/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Hi.On Fri 2003-01-31 at 22:11:45 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > It confused me for a long time. > > ln -s <destination file> < source file > <enter> Aehem. Wrong, except you have some weird understanding of source (or maybe I have - I am not a native speaker ;). Or, well, it is probably a matter of how one thinksabout it. If you think about the act of linking the file resp. on what the command act upon, it's like "cp",
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Regards,
Benjamin.
PS: IIRC, some Solaris version(s) have it the other way around, which
didn't make it easier for me to remember.
PPS: Note that in order to create a soft link, the "existing" file
does not need to exist in real, but usually it does, and it helps
anyhow, if you think about how you *would* copy that non-existing
file. ;)
Ya know everytime I tell ppl linux is just as simple as windows I'm going to remember this post! Gah!!!!!!
heh thx I'll try to keep all this crud straight.
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