What is the typical real use case or application of symbolic/hard links in Linux?
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I understand the link concept in Linux, hard or soft. Can someone please tell me the real use case? Why do we need to keep multiple references to the same file? Isn't their management a problem? If someone by mistake copies a reference instead of making a new reference of the original, I think it c…
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Any time that you want multiple names for the same thing, you need a link. Shared libraries in Linux are named with their actual name, like in this example: This is so that programs that want just any version of libcurl open libcurl.so. If they want…
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