Hard Links / Soft Links
From Dikapedia
There are two types of links:
- symbolic links (also known as “soft links” or “symlinks”): Refer to a symbolic path indicating the abstract location of another file.
- hard links: Refer to the specific location of physical data.
Soft Links
How to: Linux / UNIX create soft link with ln command
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How to create soft link / symbolic link
Soft links are created with the ln command. For example, the following would create a soft link named link1 to a file named file1, both in the current directory.
$ ln -s file1 link1