Symlink Pointing to itself

Recently I came across a weird problem.

I created a symlink with the command

ln -s <source> <destination>

After the creation of the symlink what I noticed was that the symlink was pointing to itself and hence I had the problem "too many levels of symbolic link."

Solution

I am not sure whether this is the solution but it worked in my case.

When I ran the command, I was in the <source> directory.

Later when I changed the directory to the destination to run the command ln -s <source> <destination>, the output symlink actually pointed to the desired source.

Hope this works for others as well.

please comment if you have other solution.
Thanks

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