Symbolic Link in Linux

3/7/2025 12:00:00 AM

joe-jngigi

Linux is quite interesting. It is basically the best way to figure out how things work in a computing system. Let us see what is a symbolic link

A symbolic link, also called symlink or soft link is essentially a file that contains reference to another file or directory. Instead of containing the actual data of the target, it stores the path to that target