On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:20 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:13 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Friday 13 June 2003 07:54 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ ln -s Graphics /Graphics > > > ln: creating symbolic link `/Graphics/Graphics' to `Graphics': > > > Operation not permitted > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ > > > > It seems you cannot create a symlink in the directory you want to > > link to. or perhaps you reversed the order of the syntax. it > > should be: > > > > ln -s <place you want to link> linkname > > > > So if you wanted to create a link Graphics in your home dir to > > /Graphics, it should be: > > > > ln -s /Graphics Graphics > > I sometimes think I'll never get this straight. What you said is what > would seem logical to me, but the book I consulted said > > ln -s name-of-link path/to/location > > So now I guess it's throw away the book and rely on common sense - for > this bit anyway <g>
The way to remember it is that is has the same syntax as cp. cp old-file new-file ln -s old-file new-file -- Richard Urwin
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