From 34023817cb0225b50779a546a58e057e5e920d2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 18:33:43 +0100 Subject: doc: add details on ln --relative symlink resolution * doc/coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Describe how symlinks are resolved with --relative, and give an example showing the greater control available through realpath(1). * tests/ln/relative.sh: Add a test to demonstrate full symlink resolution, in a case where it might not be wanted. --- tests/ln/relative.sh | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'tests') diff --git a/tests/ln/relative.sh b/tests/ln/relative.sh index 818da8392..8d4f1e7e0 100755 --- a/tests/ln/relative.sh +++ b/tests/ln/relative.sh @@ -34,4 +34,15 @@ ln -s dir1/dir2/f existing_link ln -srf here existing_link test $(readlink existing_link) = 'here' || fail=1 +# Demonstrate resolved symlinks used to generate relative links +# so here, 'web/latest' will not be linked to the intermediate 'latest' link. +# You'd probably want to use realpath(1) in conjunction +# with ln(1) without --relative to give greater control. +ln -s release1 alpha +ln -s release2 beta +ln -s beta latest +mkdir web +ln -sr latest web/latest +test $(readlink web/latest) = '../release2' || fail=1 + Exit $fail -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf