On 2007-05-31 21:01:44 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink? > > Say I have a link which points from mylink to A, made by > > ln -s A mylink > > and I want to make the link point to B instead. I can of course do > > rm mylink > ln -s B mylink > > but is't there a simpler way to do it?
I've always used "ln -nfs B mylink". Never had any problem with this. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
