# 2.4 Symlinks

We are going to make links between files so that 1 file can be accessed from multiple locations.

**become root**

We are first going to create a hard link for the file /usr/share/doc/vim-common/README.md and we are going to link it to /root/manual.txt. We are going to use the ln (link) command for this.
```bash
ln
```

Examples on how to do this:
```bash
ln /usr/share/doc/vim-common/README.md /root/manual.txt
```

Use **ls -l** to check the link count, It should look something like this
```bash
-rw-r--r--. 2 root root 4689 Oct 15  2012 manual.txt 
```

Verify the link count on the original file /usr/share/doc/qrencode-libs-3.4.1/README
```bash
ls -l /usr/share/doc/vim-common/README.md
```

It should look like this:
```bash
-rw-r--r--. 2 root root 4689 Oct 15  2012 /usr/share/doc/vim-common/README.md
```

Now we are going to practice with creating a symbolic link. To create a symbolic we will need to use -s (symbolic) together with the ln command.

Go ahead and link create the symbolic link /root/tmpdir and make it point to /tmp
```bash
ln -s /tmp /root/tmpdir
```

You can again verify the result with the below command:
```bash
ls -l /root
```