From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 15:18:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA88F37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B3643E75 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (dfb6032fbe60f11ce0b2e0ea7f5b9db4@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g98MJoho018308 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g98MJorM018307 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:19:50 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with ln "linking" Please! [attn manpage authors!] Message-ID: <20021008221950.GG81796@vectors.cx> References: <200210082214.g98MEngt064064@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210082214.g98MEngt064064@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> (10.08.2002 @ 1514 PST): Oliver Fromme said, in 1.2K: << > ln [-fhinv] existing_filename [another_filename] > ln -s [-fhinv] symlink_target [symlink_name] > > That would be completely clear, IMO. Although maybe a bit > too verbose. too verbose? i disagree. > (OK, in the case of symlinks it doesn't really > have to exist), and the new thing comes last. most people who would benefit from having ln spelled out for them probably won't be doing terribly difficult things with it ::) -Adam -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message