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Ln can't hard link into named directory
- From: "Lawrence Mayer" <lawmaya at gmx dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:22:51 +0200
- Subject: Ln can't hard link into named directory
Ln can't hard link into named directory.
e.g.
Ln ... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd form)
and
ln ... -t DIRECTORY TARGET... Â(4th form)
both fail when DIRECTORY is named (but appear to work when DIRECTORY = '.' (current directory))
returning error message
'ln: Cannot create a file when that file already exists.' when TARGET is named file
or
'ln: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.' when TARGET is '*' (wildcard).
I am running cygwin 1.7.17-1 and coreutils 8.15-1, calling above commands from cmd.exe 5.2.3790.3959 on Windows Server 2003 sp2 x32.
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