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Dack" Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:19:25 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 14:36:28 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) Hello, I've noticed the -f or --force option of ln doesn't seem to work. $ ln --version ln (GNU coreutils) 8.28 Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Mike Parker and David MacKenzie. $ mkdir foo bar $ ln -s foo baz $ ls -l baz lrwxrwxrwx 1 sven sven 3 Oct 21 19:15 baz -> foo $ ln -fs bar baz $ ls -l baz lrwxrwxrwx 1 sven sven 3 Oct 21 19:15 baz -> foo $ ln --force -s bar baz $ ls -l baz lrwxrwxrwx 1 sven sven 3 Oct 21 19:15 baz -> foo $ The link should have been set to "bar" with the "-f" or "--force" option, shouldn't it? Cheers From unknown Mon Jun 23 16:47:57 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#28927: ln -fs dir name doesn't force Resent-From: Andreas Schwab Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:54:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 28927 X-GNU-PR-Package: coreutils X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: "Sven C. 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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 20:53:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Sven C. Dack's message of "Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:19:25 +0100") Message-ID: <87o9p02uzk.fsf@linux-m68k.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) On Okt 21 2017, "Sven C. Dack" wrote: > The link should have been set to "bar" with the "-f" or "--force" option, > shouldn't it? The file baz/bar has been overwritten. You need to use -n if you want to overwrite a link to a directory. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." 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[184.68.105.38]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id q127-v6sm71178971pgq.19.2018.10.29.18.31.08 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:31:09 -0700 (PDT) References: <87o9p02uzk.fsf@linux-m68k.org> From: Assaf Gordon Message-ID: <1873fa32-96db-f2f2-3b45-1a79191a0608@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:31:07 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87o9p02uzk.fsf@linux-m68k.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) tags 28927 notabug close 28927 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-10-21 12:53 p.m., Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Okt 21 2017, "Sven C. Dack" wrote: > >> The link should have been set to "bar" with the "-f" or "--force" option, >> shouldn't it? > > The file baz/bar has been overwritten. You need to use -n if you want > to overwrite a link to a directory. > Given the above, and no further comments in a year, I'm closing this bug. -assaf