Exceeded limit of symlinks on Xubuntu Dapper

Mike Bird mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net
Tue Oct 3 16:34:50 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 03 October 2006 09:06, Tony Arnold wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 12:18 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > I swear ln was created backwards.  I write it wrong all the time!  We
> > should immediately replace it with a version of the command that puts the
> > target at the end :-)
>
> I've been getting this wrong for years too! The way I remember it is
> that you can leave off the second argument (LINK_NAME) and thus create a
> link to the target in the current directory.

Roughly speaking, ln is mv without the rm.

--Mike Bird




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