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need some info about symbolic link and hard link
hello folks
how y'all doin well i have some questions about symbolic link and hard link hope some one answer me i open terminal and join as root and i wrote ln -s blah blah then i wrote ls i see red file called blah blah but didn't understand what is this can some one explain and is this the way to read it ? what if remove the orginal file of hard link can i still see the content of the file and can i try to make a hard link to a directory ? To a non-existent file another more questions hope not one get angry coze i ask much what if i try to change the permissions of the original file with chmod, or update its modification time with touch is there is something gunna happen for the links that's what i wanna to know thanks for all people who's gonna see the topic and thanks for who's gonna answer my questions |
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the links all point to the same file so updating the permissions will appear like all links were changed. you cannot however change the permissions of a symbolic link. |