Symbolic Link
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See: Linked List, Filename, File System.
References
1996
- (Wall et al., 1996) ⇒ Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal L. Schwartz. (1996). “Programming Perl, 2nd edition." O'Reilly. ISBN:1565921496
- symbolic link: An alternate filename that points to the real filename. Whenever the operating system is trying to parse a pathname containing a symbolic link, it merely substitutes the real name and continues parsing.