Re: OT: symlinks question

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

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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Ken Irving