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I always think of links as pointing from source to destination. Your way would break that intuition for me. It would be the source of the address and the destin

• unoti 7y ago
  I understand fully; that’s also how I thought of it for years and why I couldn’t ever remember it. But if you think about it like copying a file it’s easier to remember. And it is like copying a file— it’s copying a reference to a file.
• bonoboTP 7y ago
  Remember it like this: just as in cp, the file that already exists comes first, the file/link we are creating now comes second.
• Izkata 7y ago
  Try taking the command a step back with hardlinks: ln source dest The association with cp makes a lot more sense then. This is how I learned it.