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Standards, the kernel, and Postfix

Standards, the kernel, and Postfix

Posted Aug 21, 2008 9:17 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458)
In reply to: Standards, the kernel, and Postfix by tomgj
Parent article: Standards, the kernel, and Postfix

Interesting. I always though the ln command had the argument in the wrong order, and it turns
out that the link function switches the order...


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Standards, the kernel, and Postfix

Posted Aug 28, 2008 6:05 UTC (Thu) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]

Huh? They both have the same order: the first argument is the target, and the second, the name of the new link being created, for both ln and link.

(That said, I've always had a bit of a liking for dd-style syntax; means you don't have to remember the order at all.)

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