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It is suggest that you avoid using the trailing slash
when you use ln to create symbolic link for a directory.
This is different from the command rsync
which a trailing slash is recommended when synchronize a directory.
ln -s /path/to/dir /target/dir
ln -s /path/to/file /target/dir