Symbolic links are a very important admin tool to use in Linux. Jack Wallen tells you why and how to create such links with ease. Symbolic links (also called a soft link) are a very important tool to ...

For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

Symbolic and hard links provide a way to avoid duplicating data on Unix/Linux systems, but the uses and restrictions vary depending on which kind of link you choose to use. Let’s look at how links can ...