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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Hard links to directories: why not?
Message-ID: <18469@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 24 Jul 90 14:40:51 GMT
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In article <3732@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>And you cut off the portion of my response in which I said *why* nobody
>added that option; the answer is "you can get that behavior without
>adding a flag to 'ln' - either remove the target first using a command
>that doesn't barf if it's not there, or check if it's there first and
>remove it if it is."

So, what you are saying is that all I need is the test, cat, rm, and ln
commands to implement the cp and mv commands?

I'd rather just have the -f option to ln ...
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