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Soft links and hard links


Soft link :-

Soft links or symbolic links refer to the association of multiple filenames for a single file.

For example: How to create a soft link:-

ln -s /path/to/file1.txt /path/to/file2.txt

Hard link :-

Hard links refer to the physical location of data and don’t link the directories and are always associated with the source.

For example: How to create a hard link:-

ln {source} {link}

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