Usually means: Pointer to another file, directory.
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  1. soft link: Dictionary.com
  2. Soft link: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. soft link: Wiktionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. soft link: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. soft link: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (soft link)

▸ noun:  (computing) Synonym of symbolic link

Similar:
softlink, symlink, symbolic link, firm link, hard link, junction, junction point, link time, linkage, link editor, more...

Opposite:
hard link, physical link

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Similar:
softlink, symlink, symbolic link, firm link, hard link, junction, junction point, link time, linkage, link editor, more...

Opposite:
hard link, physical link



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