Links

Symbolic Links
Symbolic link is a file containing the full path to the file it is linked to.

ln -s testf.txt testf_link

ls -l testf_link
lrwxrwxrwx    1 mike   staff          9 Jan 18 10:54 testf_link -> testf.txt


 
Hard Links 
An additional directory entry for the same file

ln testf.txt testf2

ls -li  testf.txt
 25 -rw-rw----    2 mike   staff         0 Jan 18 10:26 testf.txt

ls -li testf2
 25 -rw-rw----    2 mike   staff         0 Jan 18 10:26 testf2 








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