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| LN(1) User Commands LN(1) | |
| NAME | |
| ln - make links between files | |
| SYNOPSIS | |
| ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME (1st form) | |
| ln [OPTION]... TARGET (2nd form) | |
| ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd form) | |
| ln [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY TARGET... (4th form) | |
| DESCRIPTION | |
| In the 1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME. In | |
| the 2nd form, create a link to TARGET in the current directory. In the | |
| 3rd and 4th forms, create links to each TARGET in DIRECTORY. Create | |
| hard links by default, symbolic links with --symbolic. By default, | |
| each destination (name of new link) should not already exist. When | |
| creating hard links, each TARGET must exist. Symbolic links can hold | |
| arbitrary text; if later resolved, a relative link is interpreted in | |
| relation to its parent directory. | |
| Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options | |
| too. | |
| --backup[=CONTROL] | |
| make a backup of each existing destination file | |
| -b like --backup but does not accept an argument | |
| -d, -F, --directory | |
| allow the superuser to attempt to hard link directories (note: | |
| will probably fail due to system restrictions, even for the | |
| superuser) | |
| -f, --force | |
| remove existing destination files | |
| -i, --interactive | |
| prompt whether to remove destinations | |
| -L, --logical | |
| dereference TARGETs that are symbolic links | |
| -n, --no-dereference | |
| treat LINK_NAME as a normal file if it is a symbolic link to a | |
| directory | |
| -P, --physical | |
| make hard links directly to symbolic links | |
| -r, --relative | |
| create symbolic links relative to link location | |
| -s, --symbolic | |
| make symbolic links instead of hard links | |
| -S, --suffix=SUFFIX | |
| override the usual backup suffix | |
| -t, --target-directory=DIRECTORY | |
| specify the DIRECTORY in which to create the links | |
| -T, --no-target-directory | |
| treat LINK_NAME as a normal file always | |
| -v, --verbose | |
| print name of each linked file | |
| --help display this help and exit | |
| --version | |
| output version information and exit | |
| The backup suffix is '~', unless set with --suffix or SIM- | |
| PLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. The version control method may be selected via the | |
| --backup option or through the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. | |
| Here are the values: | |
| none, off | |
| never make backups (even if --backup is given) | |
| numbered, t | |
| make numbered backups | |
| existing, nil | |
| numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise | |
| simple, never | |
| always make simple backups | |
| Using -s ignores -L and -P. Otherwise, the last option specified con- | |
| trols behavior when a TARGET is a symbolic link, defaulting to -P. | |
| AUTHOR | |
| Written by Mike Parker and David MacKenzie. | |
| REPORTING BUGS | |
| GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> | |
| Report ln translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> | |
| COPYRIGHT | |
| Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU | |
| GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. | |
| This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. | |
| There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. | |
| SEE ALSO | |
| link(2), symlink(2) | |
| Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ln> | |
| or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ln invocation' | |
| GNU coreutils 8.29 February 2018 LN(1) |
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