man8/sln.8

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  25 .TH SLN 8 2017-09-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
  26 .SH NAME
  27 sln \- create symbolic links
  28 .SH SYNOPSIS
  29 .BI sln " source dest"
  30 .br
  31 .BI sln " filelist"
  32 .SH DESCRIPTION
  33 The
  34 .B sln
  35 program creates symbolic links.
  36 Unlike the
  37 .BR ln (1)
  38 program, it is statically linked.
  39 This means that if for some reason the dynamic linker is not working,
  40 .BR sln
  41 can be used to make symbolic links to dynamic libraries.
  42 .PP
  43 The command line has two forms.
  44 In the first form, it creates
  45 .I dest
  46 as a new symbolic link to
  47 .IR source .
  48 .PP
  49 In the second form,
  50 .I filelist
  51 is a list of space-separated pathname pairs,
  52 and the effect is as if
  53 .BR sln
  54 was executed once for each line of the file,
  55 with the two pathnames as the arguments.
  56 .PP
  57 The
  58 .B sln
  59 program supports no command-line options.
  60 .SH SEE ALSO
  61 .BR ln (1),
  62 .BR ld.so (8),
  63 .BR ldconfig (8)