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ln -s dest source. I had a look atman ln, and I think the only way to get the other order is if you writeln -s -t source dest. Also, the paths I use will not have very many directories, and there will only be directories and no files. However, that part of your solution is still much better practice. I will edit my question to reflect this. Thank you for your help!ln -s source destination, wheresourceis the (usually existing) target of the link anddestinationis the path to the link to create.sourceanddestinationbecause I was thinking of the directory the link points to as thedestination. However, the order I put the terms in in the question is right (but with poorly chosen words) because what I want to do is this: if a directory exists in/some/path, make a link in that directory to a directory with the same name in/some/other/path. This is obviously neither clear, nor a normal thing to want to do. I will edit my question to clarify this. Apologies for the confusion!