symlink confusion

[Kyle Smith]

I like to remember it as:

ln -s thing-I-want-a-symlink-to where-I-want-to-put-it

It's helps to remember, too, the reason for the order is that the second
option isn't required. It will put a symlink with the same base name in
your current working directory without it.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:31 PM Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net>
wrote:

> Confused about this, so I'd like to ask, before I mess things up.  I am
> attempting to follow the instructions on
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/693145/installing-cuda-7-5-toolkit-on-ubuntu-15-10
>
> I'd like to create a symbolic link from cc (which is a symlink) to
> /opt/compiler_cuda/gcc
>
> cc -> /opt/compiler_cuda/gcc
>
> So the command should be:  sudo ln -s cc /opt/compiler_cuda/gcc ?  Or
> reverse the arguments?
>
> Sorry about this primitive question, sometimes I get confused about the
> order.  As I have found online, the description is
> ln -s /path/to/file path/to/symlink.  However, this still confuses me.
> Which is which in my example?
>
> Can someone enlighten me?  TIA.
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