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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: | Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:34:38 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.1 |
On 11/29/21 14:06, Bob Proulx wrote:
mv calls it SOURCE and DEST. cp calls it SOURCE and DEST. Perhaps ln should also call it SOURCE and DEST too for consistency?
That's what ln did long ago, but that wording was deemed too confusing. Here's where we changed it to use something more like the current wording:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=519365bb089cf90bdc780c37292938f42019c7ea
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