On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:15:00AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 03:48 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > > I do not know the command line for symbolic links. I created the
> > > symbolic link of /Centos/5 to /Centos/5.1 in Nautilus which does not
> > > have a method of changing a symbolic link. Only deleting it and
> > > creating a new one.
> > >
> >
> > Not that I know of, I always just delete an recreate it using "rm -f"
> > and "ln -s" at the command line.
>
> It used to be that the -f worked. Sometime in the past that disappeared.
> Bad decision, IMHO.
It's still there:
nox:~/tmp/ln$ touch foo
nox:~/tmp/ln$ touch bar
nox:~/tmp/ln$ ln -s foo baz
nox:~/tmp/ln$ ll
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin 0 Jun 26 10:06 bar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 gavin gavin 3 Jun 26 10:06 baz -> foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin 0 Jun 26 10:06 foo
nox:~/tmp/ln$ ln -sf bar baz
nox:~/tmp/ln$ ll
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin 0 Jun 26 10:06 bar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 gavin gavin 3 Jun 26 10:06 baz -> bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin 0 Jun 26 10:06 foo
It does seem to be flaky though. I definitely have had times it hasn't
worked recently.
Cheers,
Gavin
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