"Mr. Christopher F. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 5.94-1
> Severity: important
...
> In this directory:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 6 cfm adm 8192 May 12 11:56 2006-05-04
> drwxr-xr-x 6 cfm adm 8192 May 4 16:47 2006-05-12
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfm adm 2244 Apr 21 13:13 Makefile
> drwxr-xr-x 2 cfm adm 4096 Apr 21 15:32 bin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 cfm adm 10 May 4 15:13 edition -> 2006-05-04
>
> running
> ln -sf edition 2006-05-12 edition
> fails here:
> unlink("edition/2006-05-12")
It looks like you're trying to make edition point to the newer directory.
If that's what you want, then this is the command to use:
ln -sfT 2006-05-12 edition
Note that there are only two arguments, and that I've added the
-T (--no-target-directory) option.
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