what does it mean?
what does this command do: ln -fs


thank you very much =)

Actually there are man pages for things like that. If you don't have a man page on it, check out the LQ manpages:
http://man.linuxquestions.org

As for ln, it creates a symlink. The -fs options make it a soft symlink and forces the symlinking if one already exists.

man ln for more info

Cool

kublador,

I've mentioned this once already, trying to be nice but it seems you ask alot of general type questions, alot of them the answers are already out there for you. A quick and simple search will find these for you, either on this site or maybe google.com. The man pages will always give you information of a particular command. Just type man <command-name> to view what any command does on a *nix system.
May I also suggest you might want to look into a book, your questions you ask clearly state your not at all familiar with Linux in any way, only making yourself more confused. Like this question seems to have been only asked cause someone in another thread answered your question mentioning for you to use the ln command.

I'm not trying to be rude or anything, its just frustrating for us to keep replying to simple questions like this when the answers are already out there.

Regards,

trickykid

Type those commands in a terminal:

man ln
whatis ln
ln --help

also
apropos "topic"

if you didn't know apropos IS whatis, same code exactly

http://wwwacs.gantep.edu.tr/linux/rute/

Excellent reference material for newbies.

Re apropos/whatis
on my Mandy 8.2 (for example)
whatis link - returns 1 command
apropos link -returns 55 commands
try it on yours

heh, turns out the difference is the single letter "w" once, which matches whole words, not part words. other than that they are totally identical, they are the same program.

from a user's perspective, whatis is a narrow search and apropos is a broad (too damn verbose)search when you are looking for a command or command category