On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Paul Walsh wrote:
>> From: Jeffrey Goldberg [mailto:jeffrey+lists@goldmark.org]
>> Sent: 09 February 2001 17:59
>>
>> ln -s /usr/lib/sendmail /path/to/exim
> Errm, don't you mean ln -s /path/to/exim /usr/lib/sendmail ?? as I
> understand it,
Yes. Of course. Sorry. I got that backwards. Thanks for pointing that
out.
What's really embarrasing is that I actually make this mistake "in real
life" far to often as well as on mailing lists. Even after decades of
making this mistake I still get it wrong on occassion. Fortunately I tend
to mv the thing thats in the place of the link first, so my errors are
very quickly discoverable and fixable.
I only do this for "ln -s". I think I'd better just write a "softln"
command that has the syntax that follows my intuitions, which is
softln arg1 arg2
which is make arg1 a pointer to arg2.
I never make this mistake with hard links, but it has to do with the
semantics of soft links that I shift "direct object" and "indirect
object".
-j
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