Hard link and Symbolic links in Unix

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Published on 2010-05-11T06:03:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 6:04 UTC
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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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