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os.link

os — links

Creates a hard link to a file (a second name for the same inode).

Syntax

os.link(...)

A hard link is a second name for the same data: a change through one name is visible through the other, and the data disappears only when every name is removed (counted in st_nlink). Links work only within one filesystem and usually cannot point to directories. On Windows they work since 3.2, on NTFS only.

Examples

import os
open('link_src.txt', 'w').close()
os.link('link_src.txt', 'link_src.txt_l')
print(os.path.exists('link_src.txt_l'))   # → True
os.remove('link_src.txt_l')
os.remove('link_src.txt')

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