diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 5fd11ab5f..264c66d92 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@
 </itemizedlist>
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>May 15th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Creating Files: All
+those <userinput>ln</userinput> commands can be made into a few long ln
+commands.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>May 15th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing
 Glibc: Create an ld.so.conf file before building Glibc, to prevent an
 (harmless) error.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/createfiles.xml b/chapter06/createfiles.xml
index 1be2246a8..4a71803b5 100644
--- a/chapter06/createfiles.xml
+++ b/chapter06/createfiles.xml
@@ -7,27 +7,12 @@ order to satisfy these programs, we create a number of symbolic links which
 will be replaced by real files throughout the course of this chapter when
 we're installing all the software.</para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>ln -sf /stage1/bin/bash /bin
-ln -sf bash /bin/sh
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/pwd /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/perl /usr/bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/cat /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/stty /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/msgfmt /usr/bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/xgettext /usr/bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/msgmerge /usr/bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/install /usr/bin
-ln -sf /usr/bin/install /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/echo /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/sed /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/awk /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/rm /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/mv /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/chmod /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/chgrp /bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/sort /usr/bin
-ln -sf /stage1/bin/cmp /usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>
-
+<para><screen><userinput>ln -s /stage1/bin/{bash,pwd,cat,stty,echo,sed} /bin
+ln -s /stage1/bin/{rm,mv,chmod,chgrp} /bin
+ln -s /stage1/bin/{perl,msgfmt,xgettext,msgmerge,install} /usr/bin
+ln -s /stage1/bin/{sort,gawk,cmp} /usr/bin
+ln -s bash /bin/sh
+ln -s ../usr/bin/install /bin</userinput></screen></para>
 
 </sect1>