Hard Links VS Soft Links in Linux: What’s the Difference
From concepts to operations
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3 min readApr 9, 2022
If you are a backend or DevOps developer, there are two special concepts you’re supposed to know of Linux/UNIX filesystems: hard links and soft links (or called symbolic links). Because sometimes it may lead to wrong operations for files on a Linux system if you don’t know the difference between them.
