OT: symlinks question

From: Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:01:44 +0200

Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink?

Say I have a link which points from mylink to A, made by

ln -s A mylink

and I want to make the link point to B instead. I can of course do

rm mylink
ln -s B mylink

but is't there a simpler way to do it? I would be amazed if there
weren't any (this operation occurs quite often), but I could not
find any clues in man ln.

Regards, Jan

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