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On the list of things I always Google, is how to create a symbolic link under Linux. I just can't figure out a way to remember what comes first; the source or the destination. The man pages add to the confusion by calling the "source" the target. So, the rule of thumb I now follow is cp or mv semantics.
Mnemnic that helps me: IN SYMLINKS, REAL FIRST!
ln -s REAL_FILE link_name
On the list of things I always Google, is how to create a symbolic link under Linux. I just can't figure out a way to remember what comes first; the source or the destination. The man pages add to the confusion by calling the "source" the target. So, the rule of thumb I now follow is cp or mv semantics.
Here's how I finally memorized it: ln has a 1-file-argument invocation, so ln -s ../../a_fine_file will create a symbolic link to that file under the current directory and under the "a_fine_file" file name. The single argument case has to have the file you want to link to as input. That generalizes nicely as the 2-file-argument invocation maintaining the logic.
On the list of things I always Google, is how to create a symbolic link under Linux. I just can't figure out a way to remember what comes first; the source or the destination. The man pages add to the confusion by calling the "source" the target. So, the rule of thumb I now follow is cp or mv semantics.
On the list of things I always Google, is how to create a symbolic link under Linux. I just can't figure out a way to remember what comes first; the source or the destination. The man pages add to the confusion by calling the "source" the target. So, the rule of thumb I now follow is cp or mv semantics.
On the list of things I always Google, is how to create a symbolic link under Linux. I just can't figure out a way to remember what comes first; the source or the destination. The man pages add to the confusion by calling the "source" the target. So, the rule of thumb I now follow is cp or mv semantics.
Also, an obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1168/
I also looked into freelance jobs lately, and it's pretty crazy there too, especially with the JS' frantic mutations. You'd mostly need a handful frameworks and a whole load of specialized microsolutions, but still: last year everyone was using Ionic, now React Native is everywhere. Web APIs are also evolving nonstop. Chill out for some months, and you're lagging behind the others.
And that's not even beginning to mention compiling other people's C programs under MacOS. Pretty sure that ‘The voodoo of satisfying the compiler’ would be a book of respectable thickness without ever getting into programming proper.
On the list of things I always Google, is how to create a symbolic link under Linux. I just can't figure out a way to remember what comes first; the source or the destination. The man pages add to the confusion by calling the "source" the target. So, the rule of thumb I now follow is cp or mv semantics.
softlink dest file cp src -> dest
std::memcpy dest java arraycopy src -> dest
golang io.Copy dest etc etc
I'm only 80% confident I didn't make an error in the above 5 examples...