Symbolic link
Any file that contains a reference to another file or directory / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Microsoft data exchange format, see Symbolic Link (SYLK).
In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory (called the "target") by specifying a path thereto.[1]
Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating systems, such as FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS. Limited support also exists in Windows 7 and Windows Vista, and to some degree in Windows 2000 and Windows XP in the form of shortcut files. CTSS on IBM 7090 had files linked by name in 1963.[2][3][4] By 1978 minicomputer operating systems from DEC, and in Data General's RDOS included symbolic links.