Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 01:16:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: SweeTLeaF <SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: help with ln "linking" Please! [attn manpage authors!] Message-ID: <20021008011209.B35848-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <1034052310.551709c0SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, SweeTLeaF wrote:
> I am in the /usr/root ....dir
> ln -s desktop /root/Desktop/tmp
You should be using `ln -s /root/Desktop/tmp /usr/root/desktop`
The manpage is super unclear about sourcefile and targetfile, I have said
this for years. Think of this paragraph:
SYNOPSIS
ln [-fhinsv] source_file [target_file]
Given one or two arguments, ln creates a link to an existing file
source_file. If target_file is given, the link has that name; target_file
may also be a directory in which to place the link; otherwise it is placed
in the current directory. If only the directory is specified, the link
will be made to the last component of source_file.
... as this instead `ln -s actualfile linkfile`
> Now i was exspecting to see all the contents for /usr/root/desktop when i viewed the /root/Desktop/tmp dir. but that did not happen.
> Now when i go to /root/Desktop/tmp ...i see the link for desktop but when i do a ls desktop to try and view the files inside desktop i get nothing and a cd desktop gives an sys link error...and there are more files in desktop. I guess i am trying to mirror the two dir, so even though they have different names and on different filesystems, i will see the same contents.
> Thanks for any help.
I think you just had it backwards.
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