what is symbolic link in unix ???

Answer Posted / renjith

Symbolic(Soft) link is not a real file , just a link to
another file. It allows giving another name to a file
without duplicates it. Its advantage is - Save Memory Space.
To create a symbolic link. ln -s extisting_file des_file

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