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(find.info)Links

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Links
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   There are two ways that files can be linked together.  "Symbolic
links" are a special type of file whose contents are a portion of the
name of another file.  "Hard links" are multiple directory entries for
one file; the file names all have the same index node ("inode") number
on the disk.

Symbolic Links

Hard Links