LN(1)

💖 LN(1) — create links 💖

this page is chilling in User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's all about ln being your link-making bestie. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ln — create links

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ln [-sf] source_file [target_file | [source_files ... target_directory]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so ln is the one that creates hard links or symbolic links between files. no cap.

if you give it more than one argument and the last argument is a directory, the links get created in that directory; their names will consist of the last components of the source files. if you give it only one argument, the link gets created in the current directory, and its name will consist of the last component of the source file. periodt. ✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

ln accepts the following options:

• -s — create symbolic links. hard links are created by default. 💅
• -f — if the target is not a directory, try to remove any existing targets before creating the links. if removing the target fails, that results in a warning, and no further attempt to make the link will be made. 🫶

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

the working of ln is not influenced by any environment variables. none. zero. not a single env var is in the group chat. 😭

🧚 PORTABILITY 🧚

ln will not do much on platforms that do not know the concept of links. and ln -s will not do much on platforms that do know symbolic links. yes bestie, that's the line — i'm keeping it exactly as the page says. 💀

💀 BUGS 💀

there are no known bugs in this implementation of ln. iconic, honestly. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the Perl implementation of ln was written by Abigail, and the contact is perlpowertools@abigail.be. 💌

💜 COPYRIGHT and LICENSE 💜

this program is copyright by Abigail 1999.

and the license vibe is: this program is free and open software. you may use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others from doing the same. 💖

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that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 source/version: perl v5.42.2 · date: 2026-02-15. go forth and link slay ✨💅🦋