Why are my links going in the wrong place?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 08:55:09 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 05:07, Cameron Hutchison <lists at xdna.net> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>I just need to remember the reverse-for-me order of
>>the arguments. No big deal, as it doesn't clobber anything if I get it
>>wrong.
>
> I always get this wrong too. The way I use to remember it is to think in
> terms of mv(1).
>
> e.g.
> $ mv existing_file new_file
> $ ln -s existing_file new_file
>
> It's similar in that at the end of the command, new_file exists with the
> contents of existing_file (in a way). Obviously with mv(1),
> existing_file ceases to exist with that name, but the operations are
> somewhat similar.
>

I know, but I'm stuck on:
$ command from to
Which works for mv and cp, but not for ln in the sense that I think of
"from" and "to".

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