The 'ln -s' command

[Sam Lawrance]

On 24/05/2006, at 1:21 AM, gs_stoller at juno.com wrote:

> I tried the 'ln -s' command in bothe 4.3  &  4.7  in a situation  
> where it should fail and it did, but it still had a return/exit  
> code of  0 , I think it should have been nonzero.  I tried 'ln -s   
> a  b' where the file  b  existed (and was a directory) and I wanted  
> to create the file named  a  also pointing to it.  The correct form  
> was 'ln -s  b  a'.

See the synopsis in the manpage for 'ln'.  It exited nonzero because  
you successfully put a symlink under the directory 'b', pointing to 'a'.

oddie:~ sam$ mkdir b
oddie:~ sam$ ln -s a b
oddie:~ sam$ ls -l b
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x   1 sam  sam  1 May 24 11:42 a -> a