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symlink

symlink 
oldfile
, 
newfile

Creates a new filename symbolically linked to the old filename. The function returns 1 for success, 0 otherwise. On systems that don't support symbolic links, it produces a fatal error at runtime. Be careful if you supply a relative symbolic link, since itll be interpreted relative to the location of the symbolic link itself, not your current working directory. See also link and readlink .


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