the difference between a soft link and a hard link?
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Answer Posted / linuxdemon
soft link is like shortcut.so if you delete the softlink
file, the original file wont get deleted.
Hard link is like real copy of the file.so if you delete the
hardlink file, the original file will be deleted.
ln filename hardlinkfilename
ln -s filename softlinkfilename
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