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Soft link,Hard link brief explanation (1 Reply)
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I am writing a unix system utility that is supposed to scan through a directory, collecting
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Hi,
what is link? and soft link? how about hard one and symbolic link.
and inode.
i get confuse about this links. could anyone help me with full explainsion?
thks
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