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IBM : developerWorks : Linux : Education - Tutorials | |
In practice, symbolic links (or "symlinks") are used more often than hard links. Symlinks are a special file type where the link refers to another file by name, rather than directly to the inode. Symlinks do not prevent a file from being deleted; if the target file disappears, then the symlink will just be unusable, or "broken". |
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