Public bug reported:
The manual page for ln lists only one usage that ends in "<files>"
instead of more a specific description of which file operand has what
meaning. GNU Coreutils manual pages on other systems I have show the
following usage:
SYNOPSIS
ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME
ln [OPTION]... TARGET
ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY
ln [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY TARGET...
whereas on Ubuntu I get:
SYNOPSIS
ln [--backup] [-b ] [-f|--force] [-i|--interactive]
[-n|--no-dereference] [-L|--logical] [-P|--physical] [-s|--symbolic]
[-S|--suffix] [-t|--target-directory] [-T|--no-tar‐
get-directory] [-r|--relative] [-v|--verbose] [-h|--help] [-V|--version]
<files>
Despite only listing one usage variant, the EXTRA section says "In the
1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME. In the 2nd
form, create a link to TARGET in the current directory." as if there is
a 1st and 2nd form.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.10
Package: coreutils-from-uutils 0.0.0~ubuntu24
Uname: Linux 6.19.8 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.33.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Sun Mar 22 09:27:16 2026
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: coreutils-from
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: coreutils-from (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug questing
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Manual page for ln contains no information on order of file operands
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