Symlink

A symbolic link, or symlink, is a file whose purpose is to point to (target) another file or directory with a specified path. ¹

In a file system, a file name points to an inode containing the file's metadata. Unlike a hard link, the symlink will point to the name of the file. ²

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link ↩

2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/185899/what-is-the-difference-between-a-symbolic-link-and-a-hard-link ↩