How to create symbolic link?

Q.61 How to create symbolic link?

You need to use the ln command. It is a standard Unix / Linux / BSD command to create links to files. There are two types of links under UNIX, hard and soft link:

To create a symbolic link, enter:

$ ln -s {/path/to/file-name} {link-name}

$ ln -s /shared/sales/data/file.txt sales.data.txt

$ vi sales.data.txt

$ ls -l sales.data.txt

To create hard link, enter (without the -s option):

$ ln {file.txt} {hard-link}

$ ln /tmp/file link-here