Symbolic links (also called a soft link) are a very important tool to understand in Linux. These are special files that point to other files, similar to shortcuts in Windows or aliases in macOS.

Symbolic links (symlinks) also allow you to refer to the same file in multiple locations. The difference is that, while hard links reference inodes, soft links reference other files by filename. You ...

What is the function for creating hard and soft links in the Linux filesystem in Perl?<BR><BR>Also, please fully explain to me the difference between the two. From what I currently gather, a hard ...

Just wanted to add, links (both hard & symbolic) are file system’s property not Linux’s. Linux can NOT create a link on FS which does not support it (eg FAT or NTFS) Though we can create a ...