In Unix, what's known as a "link" is quite similar to Windows' "shortcut." However, Unix has two types of file links: symbolic links (soft links) and hard links.
A symbolic link (or soft link) is more commonly used. The command to create links in Unix is ln The syntax is:in SOURCE TARGET, where the source can be a file or a directory.
Example:| $ ln source target ←Creates a link named 'target' pointing to 'source' (by default, a hard link) $ ln -s source target ←Same as above, but creates a symbolic (soft) link |