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Re: Report a bug in the ln command
From: |
Philip Rowlands |
Subject: |
Re: Report a bug in the ln command |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:52:26 +0100 (BST) |
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Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) |
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Laemmerhirt, Kai wrote:
in the already existing directory /srv/backup/home I wanted to create a
link for the user eddi to eddis home directory for data backup
reasons. In order not to change into the target directory I used the
following command:
ln -sf /home/eddi /srv/backup/home/eddi
Do you observe that running this command created two symlinks?
/srv/backup/home/eddi -> /home/eddi
/home/eddi/eddi -> /home/eddi
That's unusual; please try re-running the command with the --verbose
flag, and report the results here. The "-f" flag shouldn't have any
effect unless the link(s) already exist.
Cheers,
Phil