On 05/03/2008, Garrick Staples <garrick@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
Hi,
Sorry. That was a typo.
I have just tried using a target as a file and it does seem to work
with the -f option. It's only when the target is a directory that it
fails:
$ ll
drwxrwxr-x 2 matt matt 4096 Mar 4 14:34 dir1
drwxrwxr-x 2 matt matt 4096 Mar 4 14:34 dir2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt 4 Mar 4 14:35 link -> dir1
$ ln -s dir2 link
$ ll
drwxrwxr-x 2 matt matt 4096 Mar 4 14:35 dir1
drwxrwxr-x 2 matt matt 4096 Mar 4 14:34 dir2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 matt matt 4 Mar 4 14:35 link -> dir1
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