Re: Strange behaviour of ln

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On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 08:34:23AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> 
> The correct way to do the link is
> 
> mkdir Test2
> cd Test2
> ln -s ../Test/file file

  $ ln -s afile2 afile

Shouldn't this suffice?  After all they are in the same directory.  With
your solution, the link will break if the directory is renamed.

> cd ..
> 
> /bin/ls -l Test2
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 pgaltieri pgaltieri 10 Aug 25 08:29 afile -> Test/afile
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 pgaltieri pgaltieri 13 Aug 25 08:29 afile2 -> ../Test/afile

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