25 авг. 2014 г. · ln -sfn /a/new/path files This will replace the link with a new one pointing at /a/new/path. The -n option is necessary when linking to a different target ...

17 авг. 2013 г. · To change ownership or rights on a symlink, the -h flag will affect the symlink file instead of the dereferenced file.

27 июл. 2015 г. · On a Linux system, when changing the ownership of a symbolic link using chown , by default it changes the target of the symbolic link (ie, ...

30 авг. 2013 г. · Technically, there's no built-in command to edit an existing symbolic link. It can be easily achieved with a few short commands. Here's a little ...

22 дек. 2010 г. · This can indeed be done atomically with rename(2), by first creating the new symlink under a temporary name and then cleanly overwriting the old symlink in one ...

4 мар. 2015 г. · You can replace symlinks to files in a single operation with the -f option to ln, and if you add -T you can process symlinks to directories in the same way.

4 июл. 2016 г. · Some systems support changing the permission of a symbolic link, others do not. chmod -- change file modes or Access Control Lists (OSX and ...

3 июн. 2015 г. · GNU ln replaces the file atomically: it creates the new symlink using a random name, then renames it to the desired name, overwriting the existing file instead ...

27 сент. 2013 г. · The answer is no, you can't change the value of an existing symlink. That said, you can do something like the following to create a new symlink, changing part ...

28 мар. 2015 г. · You can change the target of a soft link without deleting the old one by forcing ln to do so. ln -f -s /new/location/to/link newlink.