On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:20:50AM +0800, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) alleged: > Hi all, > > Sorry if this seems too basic. > > But is there a way to overwrite the target of a symbolic link without > first deleting the symlink itself? > > For example, if I have this: > > public_html -> releases/b2b-20080228 > > ... and there's a new update, I can then just do the following: > > $ ln releases/site-latest public_html > > I tried using the -f option but it doesn't seem to work as expected. Your example doesn't have -s? I assume that was a typo? Anyways, ln -sf does exactly what you describe. $ ls -l foo lrwxrwxrwx 1 garrick rds 3 Mar 4 15:24 foo -> bar $ ln -sf bar2 foo $ ls -l foo lrwxrwxrwx 1 garrick rds 4 Mar 4 15:24 foo -> bar2 -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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