GNU bug report logs - #32127
ln: add option to fall-back to softlink if hardlink fails

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:30:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>, 32127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32127: RFE -- in the way "cp -rl" -- enable 'ln' to do likewise?
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:05:25 -0700

L A Walsh wrote:
> Like I'll want an "RCS" dir to point to 1 RCS tree -- so I try to use
> ln <existing RCSdir> <new RCS loc>.  ln, of course seems to think I
> want the impossible -- and says you can't have hard-linked directories.

You can use "ln -s" instead of plain "ln". If that's not what you want, then I'm 
afraid I don't understand what you want, exactly.
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