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Sometimes, while working on the command line, you need to create links between files. This can be achieved using a dedicated command, dubbed ln. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this tool using some easy to understand examples.

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By: Harold Linklater
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Hard links can only be created within the same file system - the file system on the same disk partition, not across filesystems on difference partitions. 

Is ls -l is used to list contents of a directory, then a file which has multiple hard links which be listed with more than one link in the second column.

 

"as confirmed by its sky blue text color."

Sky-blue?  That is entirely dependent on how DIR_COLORS is configured.

Accessing hard links is reputedly faster than accessing the target of symbolic links.