Re: annoyances that i have not mastered

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:45:48AM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Finally, the -s paramter to ln creates a symbolic link, -f forces
> replacement of any pre-existing TARGET.

If there's already a link and it points to a directory, ln doesn't
always work the way you'd expect. Thus, I've gotten in to the habit
of always looking for and rm-ing existing links first. Slower, but
guaranteed to do what you want.

-- 
Robin