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title: Symlink - Symbolic Link
tags:
  - glossary
  - linux
date: 2024-07-28
lastmod: 2024-07-28
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- Short for "Symbolic Link." 
- A file in a Linux system is really just a pointer to a location on a storage device. 
- A symlink is just a pointer to a pointer \[repeat N times\] to a location on a storage device.