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title: "links"
tags: [ "Documentation", "Basics" ]
---
Link from X to Y.

> ln -s X ../otherdir/Y

If you want a hard link, this will make a single file exist in two locations.
If it is deleted in one location, it continues to exist in the other.

> ln *X* *Y*

Both files must be on the same hard drive, as they have the same inode (check this with `ls -i file`).