sym links

Sym links are “symbolic” links. Its a symbolic link to a real file or folder. The symbolic part is just a representation of a file, not a real file.

1. Move your file or folder to its new location
2. Create your symbolic link to the file

This is good for security because you can set more lineant permissions on the symbolic file

Structuring you symbolic link

ln Stands for link -s Stands for symbolic

Here we create a new symbolic link in the current directory to /path-to-file/

ln -s /path-to-file/ name-of-symbolic-file

examples

sudo ln -s /var/www/test.eample.site/ my-link 

sudo ln -s /var/www/test.example.site/web/ my-link 

Create a symbolic link:

ln -s [target file or directory] [symlink name]

Example

ln -s /path/to/file /path/to/symlink

List symbolic links in a directory:

ls -l

Find broken symlinks:

find /path/to/search -xtype l

Remove the symlink using the rm command.

rm symlink_name