On Thursday 09 February 2006 01:45, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question': > This has been bugging me for some time, but I've never gotten around > to posting about it here before. Why doesn't the symlink get > overwritten, please? The behaviour I see below seems quite at odds to > the documentation in the man page (but then, perhaps I simply haven't > read the mapage properly ;)
Since your destination is a directory (albeit actually a symlink to one), ln thinks you want to put the link *in* that directory, with the same name as the original. [Compare cp and mv.] I know you can fix this with the -n flag to ln, but I can't really remember what -n stands for. (It is in the man page, of course.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
