This phrasing confused me more. `$ ln -s link_from link_to` would imply the reverse behavior. How does a symlink point from the actual file to the thing-that-l

This phrasing confused me more. `$ ln -s link_from link_to` would imply the reverse behavior. How does a symlink point from the actual file to the thing-that-looks-like-a-file-but-is-really-a-symlink? The file doesn't even know whether there are symlinks pointing to it. Applying your definitions of "link from" and "link to", this: <a href="http://google.com/>Google</a&#62 http://google.com/>Google</a> creates a link from google.com to the hyperlink on your site. I find the top reddit comment: cp existing new ln -s existing new much, much more useful. You want to create a new link pointing to an existing file, which has the same ordering as when you use cp to create a new file with the content of an existing file.