1.9. Symbolic (soft) links
There are two different types of links, soft and hard, but we’ll only be looking at the soft link. A soft link is really a pointer to a file. You’ll find that soft links come in very handy.
1.9.1. Using soft links saves multiple copies of files
Here’s how it works. Say you have a file that contains sales information that is stored in /usr/local/admin/sales, and everybody in sales wants to look at that file. Instead of copying the file to their $HOME areas you can create a file from their $HOME area that ‘points’ to the actual file in /usr/local/admin/sales. Then when you need to update the sales file, you just update that one file, in /usr/local/admin/sales. The files from the sales home directory that users are pointing ...
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