Andreas Schwab wrote: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Use -T (a GNU extension, not available in all ln implementations) > > to guarantee the first form. > > ln -sn is more widely available.
If portability is a concern then the only option is remove the target first. SysV based systems do not have the -n option. Your example: mkdir targ ln -s targ src ll -rt drwxr-xr-x 2 cwbspr2 wbspr2 4096 Dec 6 15:49 targ lrwxrwxrwx 1 cwbspr2 wbspr2 4 Dec 6 15:49 src -> targ Would then be like this: rm -f src mkdir targ ln -s targ src Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
