Learn Symbolic Links in 30 seconds

[breck]

http://breckyunits.com/code/learn_symbolic_links_in_30_seconds

[jacquesm]

If anybody found this article informative they should hand in their hacker card at the door.

[sophacles → jacquesm]

I can never remember if it is:

ln $file $link

- or -

ln $link $file

There are good arguments for both, and I have a 50% success rate at remembering. I was really hoping for some mnemonic for this. oh well.

[jacquesm → sophacles]

The mnemonic I use is to pretend ln is cp, the source file comes first.

[breck → jacquesm]

I agree, very simple.

But there are N thousands of popular Linux commands and programs. Surely even the best hackers can't memorize all of them?

[jacquesm → breck]

Sure, but then you could simply post all tha manpages one-by-one, this really isn't 'news' in any way that makes sense to me.