On Mon, 2021-08-30 at 10:18 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 29/08/2021 21:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The syntax is: ln -s TARGET LINKNAME > > > > I.e. you specify the existing thing first, and the name of the link that > > you want to create last. > > If you need a mnemonic, this is just like cp. > > $ cp ORIGINAL NEW > > creates NEW as a copy from ORIGINAL. Similarly, > > $ ln -s ORIGINAL NEW > > creates a link NEW pointing to ORIGINAL. >
Same order as for 'mount' command too. I remember the argument order as WHAT WHERE mount WHAT WHERE cp WHAT WHERE ln WHAT WHERE -- Tixy
