Matthew Winn wrote:
On Sun, 06 May 2007 14:46:22 +0200, "A.J.Mechelynck"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Henry wrote:
I used to find this hard to remember until I realized that 'ln' and 'cp'
are very similar.
The problem is, "cp -v file1 file2" outputs
`file1' -> `file2'
("the data has been copied from file1 to file2") but "ln -sv file1 file2"
outputs
file2 -> file1
It makes more sense if you think of it this way:
mv x y move file x to file y
cp x y copy file x to file y
ln x y link file x to file y
Agreed, this is what makes the parameter order intuitive and consistent
to me. But I can see confusion creeping in when the '-v' flag of the
'ln' command reverses the order of the filenames, as shown in Tony's
example above. Fortunately, I almost never use '-v' so it can't confuse
me :-)
Michael Henry
