> See the `-f' option to ln. So I did some experimentation, and it is not sufficient to simply use the -f option to ln to update bookmarks $ ln -s /bin foo # foo -> /bin/ $ ln -sf /etc foo ln: failed to create symbolic link `rot/etc': Permission denied
You also need to use the -n option to prevent dereferencing $ ln -sfn /etc foo # foo -> /etc/ Once you've done that though, it works well. On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Chris Down <ch...@chrisdown.name> wrote: > On 2013-04-04 20:51, Mara Kim wrote: > > To get back on track. Note that this process is the same even if the > 'work' > > bookmark already exists, while doing things by hand would throw an error > > without first removing the old link. > > See the `-f' option to ln. > > > Also you would need to remember to use cd -P every time if you wanted to > keep > > things unaliased. > > See `set -o physical'. > > Chris > -- M
