Symbolic Links
Let's talk about another type of link between files, the symbolic link.
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There is one other type of link that is really useful, and it is called a symbolic link or sometimes a soft link. Hard links are somewhat limited as you can’t create one to a directory, for fear that you will create a cycle in the directory tree. You can’t hard link to files in other disk partitions, etc., because inode numbers are only unique within a particular file system, not across file systems. Thus, a new type of link called ...