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Finding Files

2.2 Links

There are two ways that files can be linked together. Symbolic links are a special type of file whose contents are a portion of the name of another file. Hard links are multiple directory entries for one file; the file names all have the same index node (inode) number on the disk.

2.2.1 Symbolic Links
2.2.2 Hard Links