Re: Strange behaviour of ln

[Andras Simon]

2015-08-24 22:55 GMT+02:00, Paolo Galtieri :
> I've tried this on 2 different systems, and on both systems ln -s fails
> in the same way.
>
> Here's the steps
>
> mkdir Test
> cd Test
> > afile
>
> cd ..
> ln -s Test/afile Test/afile2
> ls -l Test
>
> This is the output:
> /bin/ls: cannot access Test/afile2: No such file or directory
> total 0
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 pgaltieri pgaltieri 0 Aug 24 13:46 afile
> l?????????? ? ?         ?         ?            ? afile2

I'm not sure, but maybe this is what -r is for:

$ mkdir Test
$ > Test/afile
$ ln -sr Test/afile Test/afile2
$ ls -l Test/
total 0
-rw-rw-r--. 1 simon simon 0 Aug 25 20:49 afile
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 simon simon 5 Aug 25 20:49 afile2 -> afile

Andras