Wow, this was super helpful!
I’ve always have that underlying question of “why is it always ln -s” and ln -s just became a muscle memory without any reason.
Good post!
I’ve always have that underlying question of “why is it always ln -s” and ln -s just became a muscle memory without any reason.
Good post!
If you see a reference like $name($number), you can get to the manpage with "man $number $name".
"man man" for the general man invocation, and "man less" on how to interact with the less pager.
-s, --symbolic
make symbolic links instead of hard links
GNU's ln(1) unfortunately does not link to symlink(7) directly, but indirectly via symlink(2). You cal still find it with the "apropos" command.
On a copy-on-write filesystem, linking may not have much utility vs. copying.