How to create symlinks in Linux

Overview Hi there fellow Linux learners! Hope you’re ready to expand your knowledge about Linux. Today’s topic is how to create symlinks in Linux, which is short for symbolic links. There are two different kinds of links: soft links hard links In this article we’ll focus on soft symbolic links. Hard links will be on menu some other time. Don’t be intimidated by its name, you don’t have to write symbols, neither remember or decipher ones. Soft symbolic links is just the fancy name for shortcuts. As simple as that. To create symlink you’ll have to use ln command (short for link – makes sense, eh?). ...

December 19, 2023 · 4 min · 777 words · MarkoN