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Date:      04 Oct 2001 21:01:01 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: none
Message-ID:  <xzphetfb576.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20011004204912.A629@lpt.ens.fr>
References:  <20011004204912.A629@lpt.ens.fr>

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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> writes:
> What does the middle line accomplish?  It only seems to give
>   ln: /etc/malloc.conf: No such file or directory
> which makes sense, since `/usr/games/fortune` will hardly ever
> give you a file reference which actually exists.

'ln -s' doesn't care if the file exists.  It didn't work for you
because I forgot to wrap `/usr/games/fortune` in double quotes:

des@des ~% ln -s "`/usr/games/fortune`" foo
des@des ~% ll foo
lrwxr-xr-x  1 des  des  161 Oct  4 20:58 foo@ -> "No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in that kind of?paper."???-- Mike Royko on the Chicago Sun-Times after it was???   taken over by Rupert Murdoch

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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