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bug#27538: ln -s creating broken sym link?


From: Bernhard Voelker
Subject: bug#27538: ln -s creating broken sym link?
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 12:46:39 +0200
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On 07/01/2017 01:44 AM, Jonny Grant wrote:
> Thank you for your suggestion re -n, -v, -f
> Unfortunately none of those give a warning when the target of the link 
> doesn't exist. Is there no way for it to give a warning?

no.  Furthermore, the target could go away in the next moment, so adding
an option for this would be racy anyway.

For daily work on the terminal, I suggest using the shell's tab-completion
when typing the target.

Have a nice day,
Berny





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