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Why create a link like this: ln -nsf?

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Mar 15, 202639428 views

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What does this do? I know creates a symbolic link, not a hard link which means you can delete it and it won't delete the thing that it's linking to. But what do the other command arguments mean? (-nf) Update: okay...so I remembered you can find this stuff out from the command line. Here's what I fo…

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ln -nsf

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