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- .th LN I 3/15/72
- .sh NAME
- ln \*- make a link
- .sh SYNOPSIS
- .bd ln
- name1 [ name2 ]
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- A link is a directory entry referring
- to a file; the same file (together with
- its size, all its protection
- information, etc)
- may have several links to it.
- There is no way to distinguish a link to a file
- from its original directory entry;
- any changes in the
- file are effective
- independently of the name by which the file is known.
- .s3
- .it Ln
- creates a link to an existing file
- .it name1.
- If
- .it name2
- is given, the link has that name;
- otherwise it is placed in the current directory
- and its name is the last component
- of
- .it name1.
- .s3
- It is forbidden to link to a directory
- or to link across file systems.
- .sh "SEE ALSO"
- rm (I)
- .sh BUGS
- There is nothing particularly
- wrong with
- .it ln,
- but
- .it tp
- doesn't understand about links and makes one copy for
- each name by which a file is known;
- thus if the tape is extracted
- several copies are restored and the information that links were involved
- is lost.
-