What Is a Symbolic Link?

A symbolic link ( soft link ) is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path. [1] Symbolic links first appeared in 4.2BSD (1983). Today POSIX operating system standards, most Unix-like systems, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 support symbolic links. Windows 2000 and Windows XP also support symbolic links to some extent.

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