"ln" (linking command) - --force flag not working

[RealityMage]

Hello,

According to the manpage, if I have the "--force" flag on my "ln" command, it should remove existing destination files.

Say I execute a "ln -sf destination2 target", but there is already a symbolic link from "target" to "destination1". In that case, the expected behavior is to have the symbolic link removed, then relinked to "destination2". The real behavior is that nothing happens.

[Genone]

You're sure that nothing happens ? If target is a directory there should be a symlink target/destination2 -> destination2. To get the behavior you want you also have to use the -n option.

[RealityMage]

You're totally right. I totally didn't notice. Thanks for your help.

I was thinking: Wow! I wonder why no one else had discovered this huge bug!