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Re: Symbolic link problem
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: Symbolic link problem |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:39:17 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> > Use -T (a GNU extension, not available in all ln implementations)
> > to guarantee the first form.
>
> ln -sn is more widely available.
If portability is a concern then the only option is remove the target
first. SysV based systems do not have the -n option. Your example:
mkdir targ
ln -s targ src
ll -rt
drwxr-xr-x 2 cwbspr2 wbspr2 4096 Dec 6 15:49 targ
lrwxrwxrwx 1 cwbspr2 wbspr2 4 Dec 6 15:49 src -> targ
Would then be like this:
rm -f src
mkdir targ
ln -s targ src
Bob