Why are my links going in the wrong place?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 17:33, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I think if you look at man ln you will see that it is doing what you are asking
>

I've spent a good ten minutes in the manpage before I posted, you know
me better than that!


> SYNOPSIS
>       ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME   (1st form)
>       ln [OPTION]... TARGET                  (2nd form)
>       ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY     (3rd form)
>       ln [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY TARGET...  (4th form)
>
> DESCRIPTION
>       In the 1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name
> LINK_NAME.  In the 2nd form, create a link to TARGET in
>       the current directory.  In the 3rd and 4th forms, create links
> to each TARGET in DIRECTORY.  Create hard links
>       by default, symbolic links with --symbolic.  When creating hard
> links, each TARGET must exist.  Symbolic links
>       can hold arbitrary text; if later resolved, a relative link is
> interpreted in relation to  its  parent  direc‐
>       tory.
>
> You are using the 3rd form so it puts a link to TARGET in DIRECTORY.
> I think maybe you want the params the other way around.
>

Thanks. I have tried different combinations of -st, -ts, -s -t, -t -s,
and the equivalents with the uppercase T. I didn't bother to report
all that, I figured that the post was long enough! Sorry, I should
have been more verbose.

I know that I can reverse the order of the arguments, but that always
gets me confused. It is much easier for me to remember which flags to
use.

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