[PLUG] Create symbolic link with "strange" file name.

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Mon Aug 27 18:52:26 UTC 2007


On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Aaron Baer wrote:

> To work around a broken html file referenced from a external site I 
> don't have access to <frame src=""> tag which was recently updated 
> with a broken image link I'm trying to create a symbolic link from 
> the original file to the broken file name. However, ln seems to 
> think I'm trying to give it an option to perform.. I've tried to 
> escape with '-' and \- and "-_filename.gif" but it all seems to not 
> work.. Any ideas?
>
> $ sudo -u www-data ln -s news_banner.gif '-'_banner.gif
> ln: invalid option -- _
> Try `ln --help' for more information.
>
> However, This does work but is a different file name so is only half of my
> problem solved:
>
> $ sudo -u www-data ln -s arc_right_news.gif arc_right_'-'.gif

Try prefixing the file name with a directory path:

   ln -s news_banner.gif ./-_banner.gif

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