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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#52115: Suggestion: LN command should swap TARGET and LINK_NAME if LINK_NAME already exists |
Date: | Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:41:07 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.1 |
On 11/25/21 15:10, Warren Parad wrote:
except mv(1) and cp(1) are both "FROM" and then "TO", but ln is backwards from thi, it is "TO" then "FROM"
No, ln is exactly like mv and cp here: the source is the first argument, and the destination is the second.
If this isn't clear, perhaps we should make the documentation clearer; but we shouldn't change ln's behavior, as many people and programs rely on the current behavior, and the current behavior is more logical once you understand how file systems work.
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