Re: OT: symlinks question
- From: Ken Irving <fnkci@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:51:24 -0800
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:01:44PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
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.
Try:
ln -s A --force mylink
or
ln -s A -f mylink
Ken
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