A quick look at the manpages reveals:I have some shell scripts that use a -h option to ln. After installing the fileutils fink package the scripts stopped working complaining that -h is not a valid option. I checked the newly installed man page for ln and -h doesn't appear in it, though it does appear in the original man page as installed with 10.2.Is the -h option to ln some kind of Apple extension to ln? Is the lack of support for this option in the FSF version intentional, or is it a bug?
Apple
-h If the target_file or target_dir is a symbolic link, do not follow
it. This is most useful with the -f option, to replace a symlink
which may point to a directory.
-n Same as -h, for compatibility with other ln implementations.
fileutils
-n, --no-dereference
treat destination that is a symlink to a directory
as if it were a normal file
So, use -n.
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