Lesson 12 of 18 · User
Hard links and symbolic links: ln, ln -s, inodes
Objective
Understand what a file really is for Linux (an inode and one or more names), then create the two kinds of links: the hard link and the symbolic link. You will be able to switch an application from one version to another in one command and spot broken links.
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