Post #2806649
2026-05-02 23:30 UTC
@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org
I do not know why but I do not make this mistake anymore. I think I did not do it since at least 25 years.
I think my brain exploded first time I had to explain it to students and since then has been glued in the "right" way.
'ln -s x y' is understood by my muscles as: copy/put the path x as the content of the y file (exactly as cp or mv).
For me content of symbolic links are just path.
I do not think at the 'ls: representation when using 'ln -s'.
#Unix
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