Qué (quién) es symbolic link - definición
FILESYSTEM OBJECT CONTAINING A REFERENCE TO ANOTHER OBJECT BY PATH
Variant symlinks; Symlink; Soft link; Symbolic Link; Symbolic links; Symlinks; Softlink; Ln -s; Sym link; Symbolically linked
symbolic link
<file system> (Or "symlink", "soft link" (by contrast with
"hard link"), "shortcut", "alias") A special type of
Unix file which refers to another file by its pathname. A
symbolic link is created with the "ln" (link) command:
ln -s OLDNAME NEWNAME
Where OLDNAME is the target of the link (usually a pathname)
and NEWNAME is the pathname of the link itself.
Most operations (open, read, write) on the symbolic link
automatically dereference it and operate on its target
(OLDNAME). Some operations (e.g. removing) work on the link
itself (NEWNAME).
In contrast with hard links, there are no restrictions on
where a symbolic link can point, it can refer to a file on
another file system, to itself or to a file which does not
even exist (e.g. when the target of the symlink is removed).
Such problems will only be detected when the link is accessed.
(1997-10-22)
Symbolic link
In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory (called the "target") by specifying a path thereto.Pathname resolution, POSIX.
Symbolic Link
<file format> (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for
spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link).
SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as
1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of
VisiCalc DIF file format.
SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about
both formula, value, and some formatting information, which
makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used
as a general tabular data exchange format.
http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/graphics/summary/micsylk.htm.
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(2004-04-08)
Wikipedia
Symbolic link
In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory (called the "target") by specifying a path thereto.
Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating systems, such as FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS. Limited support also exists in Windows 7 and Windows Vista, and to some degree in Windows 2000 and Windows XP in the form of shortcut files. CTSS on IBM 7090 had files linked by name in 1963. By 1978 minicomputer operating systems from DEC, and in Data General's RDOS included symbolic links.
Ejemplos de uso de symbolic link
1. Now with this habit fading away, people buy the goods as a symbolic link to the festive season.
2. Now with this habit fading away people buy the treats as a symbolic link to the festive season.
3. Establishing a direct, if symbolic, link with the monarchy that was overthrown on Nov. 7, 1'17, would have been too revolutionary.
4. But more important, he went on to describe the bridge as a "physical and symbolic link between Central Asia and South Asia". Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who was present, took a step further ahead and called it a link that "unites Central Asia with Southern and East Asia". China enters the podium.
5. "If part of what Obama . . . wants to do is make a symbolic link back to the King movement of the ‘60s, then Reverend Lowery is without question the best person with whom to do that." Lowery‘s life and work have been built on his oratory, and he saw in Obama a young man whose words tapped into the heartbeat of the people –– just like the well–known speeches of the civil rights movement.