Another trick nobody else has mentioned is to remember that the 2nd argument is actually optional, so you can do things like: ln -s /path/to/some/file And

Another trick nobody else has mentioned is to remember that the 2nd argument is actually optional, so you can do things like: ln -s /path/to/some/file And it'll create a symlink called "file" in the current directory. That wouldn't be possible if the arguments were the other way around.