SHTOOL-MKLN.TMP(1)

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version 2.0.8 · 3 versions
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💖 SHTOOL-MKLN.TMP(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to SHTOOL-MKLN.TMP(1), from the GNU Portable Shell Tool era — this is the shtool fam's glow-up version of ln(1), and she is serving. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

shtool-mkln — the GNU shtool enhanced ln(1) replacement. yes, it's literally that. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

shtool mkln [-t|--trace] [-f|--force] [-s|--symbolic] src-path [src-path
...]  dst-path

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this is a ln(1)-style command, right, but make it fancy. ✨ It's been enhanced to automatically calculate and use relative links with the shortest possible path — if possible, bestie, we love an honest queen. 💖

When does it do this slay? Usually when src-path and dst-path are not absolute paths, or at the very least they share a common prefix other than the root directory ("/"). iykyk 🧚

And when you specify more than one src-path? Not me casually dropping multiple sources — all of them get linked into dst-path. periodt. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

The following command line options are available. She's got range, ngl.

  • -t, --trace — turns on the output of the essential shell commands that get executed. it's giving transparency, we stan. 🔍
  • -f, --force — forces the creation of the link even if it already exists. Default is to fail with error, so like... no -f, no link, that's the vibe. 💀
  • -s, --symbolic — creates a symbolic link instead of a hard-link. choose your fighter. 🦋

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

 #   shell script
 shtool mkln -s foo/bar baz/quux

see how clean that is?? obsessed. 😭

👑 HISTORY 👑

The GNU shtool fixperm command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for ePerl. an icon, a legend, the moment. 🌈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

and that's the whole thing, bestie!! 🫶 this page is from shtool 2.0.8, dated 18-Jul-2008 — yeah she's a lil vintage but she ate and left no crumbs. mwah 💋 🌸💖🎀

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