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lns (via) “a friendly program for making symbolic links”—it’s ln -s but it does the right thing no matter what order you put the arguments in. Love it.
Tagged commandline, ln, lns, seanmburke, unix
Hehe, and I thought I was the only one who had to man ln every time I use it.
Keith Hughitt - 21st October 2008 01:29 - #
Somebody once told me to just think cp or mv (eg `cp source target` seems intuitive)... I haven't had any problems with the order of args since.
simeon - 21st October 2008 02:04 - #
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Hehe, and I thought I was the only one who had to man ln every time I use it.
Somebody once told me to just think cp or mv (eg `cp source target` seems intuitive)... I haven't had any problems with the order of args since.
simeon - 21st October 2008 02:04 - #