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leephillips on April 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Unexpected Importance of the Trailing Slash

No, `linkname` is correct. It’s the name of the link in the example. So the command `cp <file> linkname/` will give you an error if the taget is gone.

vicaya on April 10, 2022 [–]

No, `dirname` is correct. The goal of `ln -s dirname/ linkname` is that even if you accidentally do `cp file linkname` (note without slash) when dirname is gone, it will error out. Without the trailing slash in the ln command, a file (instead of directory) named dirname will be created.

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