Type the complete command that creates a symbolic link at /usr/local/bin/python pointing to the existing executable /usr/bin/python3.11.
LPIC-1 Exam 101-500, objective 104. Devices, Linux filesystems, filesystem hierarchy standard medium
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Answer
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Accepted answers
ln -s /usr/bin/python3.11 /usr/local/bin/pythonln --symbolic /usr/bin/python3.11 /usr/local/bin/pythonln -s -- /usr/bin/python3.11 /usr/local/bin/python
Case sensitive — Linux is, and grading LS as ls would teach a falsehood.
Why
The argument order is `ln -s TARGET LINK_NAME` — the thing being pointed at comes first, the new name second, which is the same order as cp and mv. Without -s you would get a hard link, which would fail across filesystems and would not track later replacement of the target. Because the target here is written as an absolute path the link keeps working from any directory; a relative target is stored verbatim and is resolved relative to the directory containing the link.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- LPI exam objective 104.6
- What it says
- Create symbolic links with ln -s.
Practise this
Reading one question is not practice. The trainer will draw a set from objective 104 and space the ones you get wrong.