Mmmm..hasn't this discussion on symbolic links gone on just a bit too long. I suggest someone who is disatisfied with the description of them send in a PR, as for their representation in ls listings then that is in line with UNIX systems in general. Their is no reason why people cannot write a wrapper script to order the arguments the way they like ! I agree it is unfortunate that symlinks got made an option to "ln" since they bear about as much relationship to hard links as a donkey does to a cigarrette. But that's UNIX for you :)
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