[mdlug] Painfully simple ln -s command question

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Robert Citek wrote:
> 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 symlink 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

Thanks for the rapid reply, it works.

I saw in the man page:
>       -n, --no-dereference
>               treat destination that is a symlink to a directory as if it were a normal file

but it seemed to be about symlinks to directories, and I was linking to
a regular file, so I didn't consider it. I guess I was confusing
"destination" with "target". The info page is more informative.

Thanks
Raymond McLaughlin