On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:56:06PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > For mv, cp, ln, et. al the path to put the result is determined by the last > > argument. It's consistent because it's UNIX. > > Well, FWIW 'man ln' tells: > > ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME (1st form) > ln [OPTION]... TARGET (2nd form) > ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd form) > ln [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY TARGET... (4th form) > > So there are 4 ways of invoking ln. Twice the target is the last > argument, twice the one before the last. This just seem to indicate that > you can pick whichever order sounds most consistent to you... 8-)
Or, just use mc Alt-x-S I think. I've also used mc when I need to do the filesystem shuffle. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
