Talha Iqbal | Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking Blogs

What is symlink (symbolic link)...?   A symlink is also known as symbolic link or Soft Link. It is a shortcut for an absolute or   relative path to a directory or file, as you use shortcuts in windows.  symlink  points to   actual file in linux file system. How to identify symlink in linux..? create symlink                              In red underline 'l' represents link (symlink).  green underline represents symlink  and  blue underline represents actual file, from which the symlink created. Let's create symlink :   Firstly, we created a python file, which takes input and display on screen. You use any text editor to create it, I used 'nano'  create symlink   Now test it, give execution permission to file for which you want to create symlink, using (chmod +x simple.py (after giving permission file colour will change.)) and then run it.   ...