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Old 02-02-2007, 08:52 AM
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What is Symbolic links in UNIX operating system. Is this a type of file.I want to know about this in brief.
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Old 04-29-2007, 12:49 PM
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Symbolic Link is also called as soft link. Unlike a hard link, a symbolic link does not contain the data in the target file. It simply points to another entry somewhere in the file system. When a user delete a target file, symbolic links to that file become unusable, whereas hard links preserve the contents of the file.
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Old 04-29-2007, 01:18 PM
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A user can create a symbolic link in UNIX, by using the ln command.

The syntax of its usage is as below:

ln -s source_file example

Here source_file is replaced with the name of the existing file for which you want to create the symbolic link. example is replaced with the name of the symbolic link.
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