[mdlug] Painfully simple ln -s command question

[Robert Citek]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Raymond McLaughlin
<driveray at ameritech.net> wrote:
> MDLUGers:
> I have been chasing this around for over an hour, the man page is no
> help,  and it's bugging me.
>
> I have a directory off my home:
>   ~/bin .
> This directory contains an executable:
>   ~/bin/clearline .
> I want to create a simlink in this directory that looks like this:
>   bin/cln -> clearline
>
> The simplest way to just do it is:
>    $ cd bin
>    $ ln -s clearline cln

$ ln -snf clearnline ~/bin/cln

Regards,
- Robert