Create a soft link in fedora/centos/redhat

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (RPM Linux)
Q: How to create a soft link in Linux? (Redhat, CentOS, Fedora)

Soft link contain only a location path to original file. and if original file deleted, link will not work.

Create a soft link in Fedora/CentOS/Redhat

Syntax:

[root@server ~#]ln -s <source file> <link name>

eg:

[root@server ~#]ln -s /new/flight.jpg /home/james/flight

(Now a link or a shortcut of the master file "/new/flight.jpg" is created in "/home/james/flight"

#Note: the soft link will not work if you delete the original file 

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