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25 .TH SLN 8 2013-02-10 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
27 sln \- create symbolic links
29 .BI sln " source dest"
35 program creates symbolic links.
38 program, it is statically linked.
39 This means that if for some reason the dynamic linker is not working,
41 can be used to make symbolic links to dynamic libraries.
43 The command line has two forms.
44 In the first form, it creates
46 as a new symbolic link to
51 is a list of space-separated pathname pairs,
52 and the effect is as if
54 was executed once for each line of the file,
55 with the two pathnames as the arguments.
59 program supports no command-line options.