ln(1) is used to create links between files. These links
can be either hard links or soft (symbolic) links. The differences between
the two kinds of links were discussed in the section called Links in Chapter 9. If you
wanted to make a symbolic link to the directory
/var/media/mp3 and place the link
in your home directory, you would do this:
$ ln -s /var/media/mp3 ~/mp3
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The -s option tells ln to make a
symbolic link. The next option is the target of the link, and the final
option is what to call the link. In this case, it will just make a
file called mp3 in your home
directory that points to
/var/media/mp3. You can call the
link itself whatever you want by just changing the last option.
Making a hard link is just as simple. All you have to do is leave off
the -s option. Making a hard link out of the previous
command would be done as follows:
$ ln /var/media/mp3 ~/mp3
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