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coreutils package

  1. Bug #120902
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 120902

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Micah Cowan (micahcowan) wrote :

Yes, it's expected behavior. By default, ln will dereference destination symlinks; use the -n option to avoid this.

$ ln -sfn foo2 bar
$ ls -l
bar -> foo2
foo1
foo2