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Post #2806642

2026-05-03 16:50 UTC

@wouter@pleroma.debian.social I learned cp and mv as 'source' to 'destination', so I think the 'ln' docs really should say: 'ln '. But the whole ambiguity of the word 'target' speaks to why “just think of it like cp or mv" doesn't work for many people — especially for symlink. You point/follow a symlink somewhere… like a target? You cp a file somewhere … like a target? Cc: @mjw@mastodon.nl @collinfunk@mastodon.social @pinche_compinche@tuiter.rocks @monospace@floss.social

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  • @novalis@honk.novalis.org 2026-05-03 17:13

    @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @wouter@pleroma.debian.social @mjw@mastodon.nl @collinfunk@mastodon.social @pinche_compinche@tuiter.rocks This is why man strstr gives the arguments as haystack and needle instead of trying to use the word target.

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