🤣 same
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med@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoYes. But also, despite having done it literally thousands of times, I still can’t tell you which way round to put the target and the link name for a softlink on the first go.
My first guess is always
ln -s $NAME $TARGET
No amount of repetition will fix this.
mvirts@lemmy.world 10 months ago
shrugs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My trick to remember:
You can link to a target without giving a name to the link. ln will use the basename of the target file then. You can’t create a link without a target, so target has to go first since it’s not optional. Did it for me
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 10 months ago
I used to have that problem with ln until I realized it’s essentially the same ordering as cp: source, then destination. The source being the existing file that you’re linking to, and the destination being the link that you’re creating
qqq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I feel seen