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Re:I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command by its2010already on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @05:12PM (#1984853)
My mnemonic for this is to remember that the link name is optional. When you specify only one argument the link name is the base name of the target (in the current working directory). Therefore the link name must be the second argument.
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