[buug] ln -sf
Erik Shirokoff
shiro at uclink4.berkeley.edu
Thu Jul 29 16:06:12 PDT 2004
Hello -
I don't quite understand. Is the problem that you are or that you aren't getting the text below?
I seem to get exactly the results shown, using ls (coreutils) 5.2.1 on slackware-10.
- Erik
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:34:03PM -0700, johnd wrote:
> is the force option of ln supposed to work on sym links?
>
> I can't get it to like below. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> --------------------------------------------
> john at ldev:~/foodelme$ touch file
> john at ldev:~/foodelme$ touch file1
> john at ldev:~/foodelme$ ln -s file link
> john at ldev:~/foodelme$ ls -l
> total 1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 john users 0 2004-07-29 15:26 file
> -rw-r--r-- 1 john users 0 2004-07-29 15:26 file1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 john users 4 2004-07-29 15:26 link -> file
> john at ldev:~/foodelme$ ln -fs file1 file
> john at ldev:~/foodelme$ ls -l
> total 1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 john users 5 2004-07-29 15:27 file -> file1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 john users 0 2004-07-29 15:26 file1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 john users 4 2004-07-29 15:26 link -> file
> john at ldev:~/foodelme$
>
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