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link

LINK(1) 							   User Commands							   LINK(1)

NAME

       link - call the link function to create a link to a 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

AUTHOR

       Written by Michael Stone.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report link bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report link translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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

       link(2)

       The  full documentation for link is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and link programs are properly installed at your site, the
       command

	      info coreutils 'link invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011							   LINK(1)