10-09-2009
Not sure what you are trying to do but:
1) in /usr/lib/... should not be found users stuff as for security tidyness etc... only bin, root etc... are owners and are allowed to write there...
2) I wonder if you know what you are doing...
Reread the man pages (man ln) look at the syntax and in your home directory create two subdirs (dir1, dir2), then go in the first and do ln -s dir2 ../dir2 and look at the result, do you see anything? where is the link?
Now look at your command you tried to pass...
The error does make sence no?
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dirname
DIRNAME(1) User Commands DIRNAME(1)
NAME
dirname - strip last component from file name
SYNOPSIS
dirname [OPTION] NAME...
DESCRIPTION
Output each NAME with its last non-slash component and trailing slashes removed; if NAME contains no /'s, output '.' (meaning the current
directory).
-z, --zero
separate output with NUL rather than newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
dirname /usr/bin/
-> "/usr"
dirname dir1/str dir2/str
-> "dir1" followed by "dir2"
dirname stdio.h
-> "."
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AUTHOR
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COPYRIGHT
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
basename(1), readlink(1)
The full documentation for dirname is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dirname programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info coreutils 'dirname invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 DIRNAME(1)