Hard link and Symbolic links in Unix
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Hi All,
I just wanted to clarify if a hard/symbolic link is actually a file that is created ??
I ran the command:
ln source hardlink
ln -s source softlink
-- The ls command shows this 2 links as a file.
So my query is, does ln / ln -s
actually create a file?
Regards, Shyam
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