mln

mln a replacement for ln written in Golang. mln create a symbolic link, not a hard link. It is inspired by exa.

Motivation

Every time I use the ln command, it puzzles me not knowing whether any of the arguments is source_file or target_file. Also, maybe most people use the ln command to create only symbolic links, but creating a symbolic link requires the -s option. I wanted to make a symbolic link more easier, so I created mln.

Installation

Binary

Download the binary from GitHub Releases and drop it in your $PATH.

Manually Build

You need Go 1.13 compiler.

$ go get github.com/tkmru/mln

Usage

In mln, a symbolic link is created successfully regardless of which of the arguments specifies the link destination and link name.

$ mln -h
A modern version of ln. `mln` create a symbolic link, not a hardlink.

Usage:
  mln [target <file/dir>/symlink file] [symlink file/target <file/dir>] [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for mln

License

MIT License