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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links for Lunks.
Message-ID: <66335@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 00:44:08 GMT
References: <9008072310.AA21830@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>
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In article <9008072310.AA21830@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>, root@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes:
> 
> After having clobbered too many  very important files and directories that
> I wanted to make local symlinks to, I wrote the script below to
> make it more difficult for me to clobber my files with sgi symbolic
> links. ...


Could you suggest improvements to the -i option of ln, as in `ln -si foo bar`,
described in ln(1), to make ln as safe as your script?


Vernon Schryver
vjs@sgi.com