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I have a ghc directory containing ghci.conf:

$ tree ghc                                                                                                 
ghc
└── ghci.conf

0 directories, 1 file

And I want to create symbolic link at $HOME/.ghc, but the latter directory contains other files and directories.

When doing:

$ ln -s -f ghc ~/.ghc

I get a symbolic link to my ghc under $HOME/.ghc, which is not what I intended:

$ ls -l ~/.ghc                                                                                                                
total 16
lrwxr-xr-x  1 jviotti  staff    41 Nov 30 20:40 ghc -> /Users/jviotti/dotfiles/link/ghc
-rw-r--r--  1 jviotti  staff  1883 Nov 30 20:34 ghci_history
drwxr-xr-x  3 jviotti  staff   102 Jul  9 13:35 x86_64-darwin-7.6.3
drwxr-xr-x  3 jviotti  staff   102 Nov 11 13:51 x86_64-darwin-7.8.3

A quick solution do accomplish this would be to iterate trough the contents of ghc and execute ln -s on each file, however I was wondering if there is an easier way to instruct ls to merge the files automatically of trying to create a symbolic link to a directory from an existing directory.

Does such option exist?

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Forgive me if a misunderstand the question, but is 'rsync' an option to get the directories in sync and THEN recreating the symlink you want?

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