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Author akineko
Recipients akineko, georg.brandl
Date 2007-09-06.15:38:18
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> Shouldn't ln -f ignore existing destination files?
> What system is that?

Well, it was on Solaris 9.

Under Solaris, ln -sf won't clobber an existing soft link.
I don't know if there is a work around of this rather than removing the
link explicitly.

Other Unix experts, any help?

Aki-
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