Symbolic links

Symbolic Links are essentially aliases to other file locations. They can point to directories, binaries, or files. The most common type are soft links which are explained in this article.

How to add a symbolic link

$ ln -s {/path/to/file-name} {link-name}
$ ln -s /shared/sales/data/file.txt sales.data.txt
$ vi sales.data.txt
$ ls -l sales.data.txt

How to delete symbolic link

$ rm {link-name}
$ rm sales.data.txt
$ ls -l
$ ls -l /shared/sales/data/file.txt