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Jnc: Avoid redir

2018-12-16T21:24:31Z

Avoid redir

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	* [[~~Soft~~ link]]		* [[Symbolic link]]

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Jnc: +cat

2018-12-16T21:23:32Z

+cat

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	They differ from [[symbolic link]]s in that if the target file is deleted, and replaced with a different file, references to the hard link will still go to the old file. Only when the last link/name for the old file contents is deleted from the file system do the contents of the old file disappear.		They differ from [[symbolic link]]s in that if the target file is deleted, and replaced with a different file, references to the hard link will still go to the old file. Only when the last link/name for the old file contents is deleted from the file system do the contents of the old file disappear.

			==See also==

			* [[Soft link]]

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			[[Category: OS Basics]]

Jnc: right cat

2018-10-18T14:15:51Z

right cat

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	They differ from [[symbolic link]]s in that if the target file is deleted, and replaced with a different file, references to the hard link will still go to the old file. Only when the last link/name for the old file contents is deleted from the file system do the contents of the old file disappear.		They differ from [[symbolic link]]s in that if the target file is deleted, and replaced with a different file, references to the hard link will still go to the old file. Only when the last link/name for the old file contents is deleted from the file system do the contents of the old file disappear.

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Jnc: An OK start

2018-05-25T11:50:49Z

An OK start

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A '''hard link''' is a connection (one of potentially several) between a [[file]] name in a [[file system]] and the contents of another (the 'target'; which does have to exist at the time the link is created), such that references to the first name wind up at the file named by the second.

They differ from [[symbolic link]]s in that if the target file is deleted, and replaced with a different file, references to the hard link will still go to the old file. Only when the last link/name for the old file contents is deleted from the file system do the contents of the old file disappear.

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