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What are soft links? Describe some of the features of soft links.

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Soft Links or Symbolic Link or Symlink are special files which are used as a reference for another directory. Some features of softlinks are:

  1. They have a different INODE number with respect to source files or original files.
  2. If in case the original file is deleted then a soft link of that file is useless.
  3. We cannot update a soft link.
  4. Soft links are used to create links between directories.
  5. Soft links are independent of file system boundaries.

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