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ln

make a symlink to foo.txt

ln -s foo.txt link-to-foo.txt

Basic Usage

Make anchor a link to target:

ln -s <target> <anchor>

Symbolic Links (symlinks)

Make it symbolic with the -s flag:

$ ln -s foo.txt link-to-foo.txt
$ ls -lF
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 tyrion  group  0 Feb  3 14:13 foo.txt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 tyrion  group  7 Feb  3 14:14 link-to-foo.txt@ -> foo.txt

Hard Links

Omit the -s flag:

$ ln foo.txt hard-link-to-foo.txt
$ ls -lF
total 0
-rw-r--r--  2 tyrion  group     0B Feb  3 14:13 foo.txt
-rw-r--r--  2 tyrion  group     0B Feb  3 14:13 hard-link-to-foo.txt