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Tutorial8: Links / Process Management

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INVESTIGATION 1: LINKING FILES
# Issue the following Linux command to view the contents of the<br>original file called ~/links2/text-file.txt:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">cat ~/links2/text-file.txt</span><br><br>What happened? Why did does this happen?<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ls -l ~/text-file.sym.lnk</span><br><br>This output indicates a "'''broken link'''" and indicates this is not an effective method of backing up files.<br><br>
# Issue a command to delete the <span style="\font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">~/text-file.sym.lnk</span> file which is a ''broken link''.<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ln -s ~uli101 101</span><br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ls -ld 101</span><br><br>What do you notice? Symbolic links are good for creating "short-cuts" to <u>both</u> '''regular files''' and '''directories'''.
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