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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Soft links question Post 302954422 by sea on Monday 7th of September 2015 04:40:18 PM
Old 09-07-2015
A link is a link, just like in Windows.

So when you enter the house at cd /softlink you actualy enter /main_dir, seeing the very same files.
Deleting a file in /softlink will also remove the file in /main_dir.

EDIT:
Or in other words, consider the /main_dir a house at a street cross.
If the house was only at one street, it would have just one door.
But since its sides are at two streets now with the symlink, it has two doors as well, which both are leading to the very same rooms (dirs and files) within the house/folder.

EDIT2:
The only 'non-original' file is the symlink /symlink, which represents a folder (/main_dir)
All other files are 'original'...

hth

Last edited by sea; 09-07-2015 at 05:51 PM..
 

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