Re: Bug in ln re -f option

2003-10-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Darren Besler wrote: > Using Redhat Linux 8.0, fileutils rpm: fileutils-4.1.9-11. Or any BSD variant. But SysV is the other way. > I have observed that the ln -f option does not work as prescribed > when target is a directory. I have hit that several times myself. It is BSD like behavior. I t

Bug in ln re -f option

2003-10-04 Thread Darren Besler
Using Redhat Linux 8.0, fileutils rpm: fileutils-4.1.9-11. I have observed that the ln -f option does not work as prescribed when target is a directory. In the following example, a sym link bbb is being changed to point from directory aaa to directory . When using -f, bbb is not removed/recr