Symbolic Links & Hard Links
Explore the concepts of symbolic links and hard links in Bash. Understand how inodes work, how soft links act as pointers to files, and how hard links represent exact copies pointing to the same inode. This lesson helps you manage files effectively using link types.
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Before digging in further, let’s discuss a few concepts which a programmer must be familiar with.
This lesson is entirely dedicate to links but to understand links, you must have an idea of what an inode means. An inode is basically a link that points to the actual content or data. A file in the file ...