Why ln -s creates relative broken links?
I have an issue with ln -s on Ubuntu 14.04, while using it in the following scenario:
$ cd ~/programming/tmux/
$ ln -s tmux ~/bin/tmux
$ ls -l ~/bin/tmux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 USER USER 4 sie 31 11:02 /home/USER/bin/tmux -> tmux
Why is it like so? When I create it giving the absolute path everything works fine:
$ ln -s ~/programming/tmux/tmux ~/bin/tmux
$ ls -l ~/bin/tmux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 USER USER 4 sie 31 11:02 /home/USER/bin/tmux -> ~/programming/tmux/tmux
When you write
ln -s VALUE link_name
it creates a symbolic link with value VALUE. This is what you got. If you want to create a relative link, it is best to cd to the directory where you want to put the link:
$ cd ~/bin
$ ln -s ../programming/tmux/tmux .
Shell completion will help you.