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diff --git a/man/ln.1 b/man/ln.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a8b90c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/ln.1 @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.48.5. +.TH LN "1" "April 2022" "GNU coreutils 9.1" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +ln \- make links between files +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B ln +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,-T\/\fR] \fI\,TARGET LINK_NAME\/\fR +.br +.B ln +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,TARGET\/\fR +.br +.B ln +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,TARGET\/\fR... \fI\,DIRECTORY\/\fR +.br +.B ln +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,-t DIRECTORY TARGET\/\fR... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.\" Add any additional description here +.PP +In the 1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME. +In the 2nd form, create a link to TARGET in the current directory. +In the 3rd and 4th forms, create links to each TARGET in DIRECTORY. +Create hard links by default, symbolic links with \fB\-\-symbolic\fR. +By default, each destination (name of new link) should not already exist. +When creating hard links, each TARGET must exist. Symbolic links +can hold arbitrary text; if later resolved, a relative link is +interpreted in relation to its parent directory. +.PP +Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. +.TP +\fB\-\-backup\fR[=\fI\,CONTROL\/\fR] +make a backup of each existing destination file +.TP +\fB\-b\fR +like \fB\-\-backup\fR but does not accept an argument +.TP +\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-directory\fR +allow the superuser to attempt to hard link +directories (note: will probably fail due to +system restrictions, even for the superuser) +.TP +\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR +remove existing destination files +.TP +\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-interactive\fR +prompt whether to remove destinations +.TP +\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-logical\fR +dereference TARGETs that are symbolic links +.TP +\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-no\-dereference\fR +treat LINK_NAME as a normal file if +it is a symbolic link to a directory +.TP +\fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-physical\fR +make hard links directly to symbolic links +.TP +\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-relative\fR +with \fB\-s\fR, create links relative to link location +.TP +\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-symbolic\fR +make symbolic links instead of hard links +.TP +\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-suffix\fR=\fI\,SUFFIX\/\fR +override the usual backup suffix +.TP +\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-target\-directory\fR=\fI\,DIRECTORY\/\fR +specify the DIRECTORY in which to create +the links +.TP +\fB\-T\fR, \fB\-\-no\-target\-directory\fR +treat LINK_NAME as a normal file always +.TP +\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR +print name of each linked file +.TP +\fB\-\-help\fR +display this help and exit +.TP +\fB\-\-version\fR +output version information and exit +.PP +The backup suffix is '~', unless set with \fB\-\-suffix\fR or SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. +The version control method may be selected via the \fB\-\-backup\fR option or through +the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the values: +.TP +none, off +never make backups (even if \fB\-\-backup\fR is given) +.TP +numbered, t +make numbered backups +.TP +existing, nil +numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise +.TP +simple, never +always make simple backups +.PP +Using \fB\-s\fR ignores \fB\-L\fR and \fB\-P\fR. Otherwise, the last option specified controls +behavior when a TARGET is a symbolic link, defaulting to \fB\-P\fR. +.SH AUTHOR +Written by Mike Parker and David MacKenzie. +.SH "REPORTING BUGS" +GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> +.br +Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright \(co 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. +.br +This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. +There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +\fBlink\fP(2), \fBsymlink\fP(2) +.PP +.br +Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ln> +.br +or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) ln invocation\(aq |