On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 09:26:23AM -0700, Stephen Cameron wrote: > > > This I don't understand: so what does the "." stand for? > > "." is the current directory. > > >From the man page of "ln" > > SYNOPSIS > ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME] > --> ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY > ln [OPTION]... --target-directory=DIRECTORY TARGET... > > [...] > When using the second form with more > than one TARGET, the last argument must be a > directory; create links in DIRECTORY to each TARGET. I think you don't actually need the '.' in this case, so the solution can be two characters shorter. Best, Chris. ------------------- chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://mccormick.cx
