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Re:Everything I googled in a week as a professional software... by dpwm on Saturday September 07, 2019 @05:10AM (#20902683)
Same here. After adopting this approach, I haven't had to look it up since.

The real question I have left: why is this so intuitive for cp, but completely counterintuitive for ln?

I wonder if is because we think of how we would follow the link.

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Re:Everything I googled in a week as a professional software... by iandanforth on Saturday September 07, 2019 @11:44AM (#20904465)
This. "I want something here that points to there" is how I always think about it. That's why "link" on my boxes is mapped to "ln -s" with the arguments swapped :)
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