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bug#47703: Same category as "ln <dir> <symdir>" (was: bug#47703: Mention
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L A Walsh |
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bug#47703: Same category as "ln <dir> <symdir>" (was: bug#47703: Mention if ln -s needs -r, or ln -r needs -s) |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:52:05 -0700 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) |
On 2021/04/11 07:21, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 09/04/2021 12:46, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
man ln says:
-r, --relative
create symbolic links relative to link location
-s, --symbolic
make symbolic links instead of hard links
Hard to tell from the man page.
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Seems like another related example ignoring what the user wants and
issuing an error for an inexact usage.
If you used "-r" by itself, or if you try linking a directory,
either without "-s", you get an error message, when it would be more
helpful to assume "-s" and give a diagnostic if "interactive" (assumption
being, that if it was in a script, it was obviously intended that way,
as any other way generates an error).
Fair point.
thanks, Pádraig