Today was hell on earth as for user support. Phone going non stop, tickets coming in faster than we were able to process

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linuxxx

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beleg

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5y

I guess that's why it has a -T option.

Ps. Also that's why there's a man page.
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linuxxx

146736

5y

@beleg I stared at the command for a minute and couldn't figure out if I was doing it right.

As said, I've done this so many times but for my own safety I just didn't do it.
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gilerean

9

5y

Doesn’t symlinking also fail if the source is invalid or if the destination exists already?
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linuxxx

146736

5y

@gilerean if the destination exists it'll be over written I thought...
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C0D4

69533

5y

@linuxxx it does.

Which is fun when it’s a /var/www/ symlink.
3

hell

17012

5y

Sorry, I was hanging around :/
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PerfectAsshole

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5y

@linuxxx @C0D4 i thought it only replaced if you used -f but first is source cause you can create a symlink in the current directory by omiting the destination
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Condor

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5y

@linuxxx @C0D4 @PerfectAsshole designation apparently doesn't get overwritten if it exists
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PerfectAsshole

6198

5y

@Condor yeah that's what i thought
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flocke

264

5y

I usually do it the wrong way around on the first try and get the 'File exists' error, every time...

If you think about it for more than 1s it is pretty obvious (same behaviour as CP and mv, src first then dest)... but who likes thinking...
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infernalempress

3004

5y

Every time I make a symlink I end up searching my shell history for the last time I did it cause I can never remember and can't be bothered to read the man page
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Conrad

765

5y

Same today with junction on windows… Every time I run it without parameters first to check what comes first
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chaosops

1

5y

Failsafe way to create a simlink:
$ cd /path/to/destination
$ ln -s /path/to/target

Done

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