simlink
Do you remember the order of args to make a symlink? I usually don't!
Simlink is just a wrapper around ln -s, but it doesn't care which order you specify arguments! All you need is a file/directory that exists, and one that doesn't (yet!). This is going to change the world!!
Building
You'll need Rust >= 1.6.0.
cargo install simlink
or if you want to build it locally:
cargo build
./target/debug/simlink some_path some_other_path
Demo
# ~/.vimrc exists, the others do not.
simlink ~/.foo ~/.vimrc
simlink ~/.vimrc ~/.bar
Are you serious?
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no, not really.
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keep in mind that most Unix utils take "the existing file" first
ln -s /some/existing/file some_new_file
© 2022 Dave Parfitt