![]() ![]() You can have MULTIPLE sources, in which case it only makes sense that the second one (which in that case has to be a directory) is your destination. The other, main thing that makes it easy to remember what the order is is that you can do:Īnd you'll end up with /root/true linked to /bin/true. This can cause problems in things like containers, where your link may be accessed from inside or outside a container, and the reference may need to be relative to work in both cases. If you use an absolute path in the source, the symlink will have that absolute reference. You always want to make sure the source *will* exist based on where you're placing the link. for instance, across symlinks that may already exist. ![]() This can be really important when you're creating symlinks with relative references. Which, when accessed, will be accessed from /tmp Will create a broken link in /tmp/somefile, pointed at "doesnotexist". When doing a symbolic link, the source doesn't have to exist at all. That means file1 is always a full path, or relative to your current location. If file1 does not exist, it will not succeed. If you use ln for hardlinks - it will ensure the source exists. Like this? Follow me ↯ Tweet Follow Pete, Removing that trailing slash fixed the problem for me. The cause of that error for me was simply that I put a trailing slash on the linked path. This led me to immediately think I mixed up the order of the target and source paths, but I did have them in the correct order. 15 hours ago &0183 &32 Most notably, the Phone Link for iPhone update will allow you to use iMessage from a PC. That seamed like a rather odd error since that linked path was the link I was attempting to create, of course it doesn't exist. ![]() Recently when attempting to create a symbolic link from one folder to a new linked folder, I received this error: ln: /linked/path/: No such file or directory It doesn't matter if you are running Mac, Linux, Ubuntu, RedHat the syntax will always be ln -s source target The same goes for ln, but unless you create symbolic links every day you'll probably forget this by the next time you need to create one. To answer my own question, you put the existing path first ( source file), then the link path ( target file) you want to create second.Ī good way to try to remember this is that it is the same order as the cp command if you were to copy a file from one path to a new path, you always put the existing file path first. Here's an example: ln -s /real/path /linked/path What comes first in the ln -s command on linux or Mac? So I thought I'd write a little blog entry for future me to find. One thing I've had to google more times than I'd like to admit is the path argument order for the ln command. ![]()
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