Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer

Re:Everything I googled in a week as a professional software... by throwaway744678 on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:20PM (#20898261)

Ha! My trick is to

  ln -s a b

then look at the link with ls -l, then remove my garbage! Your way is much better.

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Re:Everything I googled in a week as a professional software... by TACIXAT on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:34PM (#20898412)

I just do it the one way, get the error that the destination already exists, then swap them.

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Re:Everything I googled in a week as a professional software... by hanspeter on Saturday September 07, 2019 @03:24AM (#20902341)

I think most people just feel this is risky. What if you overwrite your file? If it was a cp command, that's what would happen.

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Re:Everything I googled in a week as a professional software... by skzo on Friday September 06, 2019 @06:09PM (#20900338)

Me too, I was starting to think I was the crazy one after reading the other comments :)

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Re:Everything I googled in a week as a professional software... by account42 on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:39AM (#20916256)

Except if b is a directory, then ln -s a b will create a symlink at b/a which points to a.

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