An article to learn soft and hard links｜Shortcut｜Operating system｜centos7

前言

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Creation of soft and hard links to files

Soft link creation command:

ln -s source-file target-file

Hard link creation command:

ln source-file target-file

The filename can be a relative path or an absolute path.

example:

The difference between soft and hard links

The essential difference between soft and hard links:

1. Soft links have independent inodes
2. A soft link is a separate file
3. Hard links do not have their own inodes
4. A hard link is not a separate file

What is the use of soft and hard links?

soft link

Equivalent to shortcuts under windows!

hard link

The essence is to alias a file!