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What is the difference between a soft link and a hard link?

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What is the difference between a soft link and a hard link?..

Answer / narendrasairam immadi

hard link - shares the same inode value. Changes made to
one hard link file effects the other file as they inturn
refers to the same file location due to sharing inode value.

soft link - have its own independent inode values. Changes
made in one file wont effect the other.

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