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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Soft link Post 302939394 by sea on Wednesday 25th of March 2015 06:19:36 AM
Old 03-25-2015
Code:
ln -sf /path/of/origin_new /path/to/destination

Will overwrite the destination softlink with the new origin.

hth
 

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RFIO_RCP(3)						      Rfio Library Functions						       RFIO_RCP(3)

NAME
rfio_rcp - third party copy of a file SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include "rfio_api.h" int rfio_rcp (char *source, char *destination, int timeout); DESCRIPTION
rfio_rcp triggers a third party copy of a file. source specifies the physical path of the source file. destination specifies the physical path of the file at destination. timeout specifies the time after which the copy is cancelled if not completed. RETURN VALUE
This routine returns 0 if the operation was successful or -1 if the operation failed. In the latter case, serrno is set appropriately. ERRORS
ENOENT The source file does not exist or a component of destination prefix does not exist. EACCES Search permission is denied on a component of the source or destination prefix or read permission is not granted on the source file or write permission on the destination parent directory is denied. EFAULT source or destination is a NULL pointer. ENOSPC No space to store the new file copy. ENAMETOOLONG The length of source or destination exceeds CA_MAXPATHLEN or the length of a path component exceeds CA_MAXNAMELEN. SENOSHOST Host unknown. SETIMEDOUT Has timed out. SECOMERR Communication error. SEE ALSO
Castor_limits(4) LCG
$Date: 2010-09-07 09:21:01 +0200 (Tue, 07 Sep 2010) $ RFIO_RCP(3)
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