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Tutorial8: Links / Process Management

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INVESTIGATION 1: LINKING FILES
# Change to your '''home''' directory.<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command to create the following symbolic link in your home directory: <br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ln -s ~/links2/text-file.txt ~/text-file.sym.lnk</span><br><br>
# Issue the ls -l command for the ~/text-file.txt.sym.lnk file.<br><br>What do you notice? What is the file size?<br>What pathname do you think this file contains?<br><br>
# Issue the following command:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">cat ~/text-file.txt.sym.lnk</span>
# x
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