On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:05:11AM +1000, Gavin Carr wrote: > 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. If there's already a link to a directory, you need -n (usually); -n, --no-dereference treat destination that is a symlink to a directory as if it were a normal file Otherwise, you'll end up with a rogue link inside the existing directory: mikaelf@mikaelf:/tmp/ln$ ln -sf foo link mikaelf@mikaelf:/tmp/ln$ ls -lR .: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 mikaelf mikaelf 4096 2008-06-26 11:19 bar drwxr-xr-x 2 mikaelf mikaelf 4096 2008-06-26 11:16 foo lrwxrwxrwx 1 mikaelf mikaelf 3 2008-06-26 11:19 link -> bar ./bar: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 mikaelf mikaelf 3 2008-06-26 11:19 foo -> foo ./foo: total 0 -- Fridh _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos