How to use symbolic links on Linux

Posted by zn52 on Jan 6, 2021 12:55 AM EDT
net2.com; By Nikolaus Oosterhof
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Symbolic links (or Symlinks) are files that act as shortcuts or references to another file or directory. Although different, roughly speaking, we can think of symbolic links as being similar to software shortcuts on the desktop: by clicking on them, we run a program that is stored elsewhere on the computer and, sometimes, even on another machine. But everything works so transparently that it looks like we’re clicking on the original executable.

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