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This article is somewhat of a glossary for all the phrases that I use that originate with Linux or related projects like GNU.
### Symlink
- 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.