link — call the link function to create a link to a file
Examples (TL;DR)
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Create a hard link from a new file to an existing file:
link path/to/existing_file path/to/new_file
Synopsis
link FILE1 FILE2
link OPTION
Description
Call the link function to create a link named FILE2 to an existing FILE1.
- --help
display this help and exit
- --version
output version information and exit
Reporting Bugs
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Copyright
Copyright © 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
See Also
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/link>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) link invocation'
Info
October 2019 GNU coreutils 8.31