man8/sln.8

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   5 .TH SLN 8 2021-03-22 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
   6 .SH NAME
   7 sln \- create symbolic links
   8 .SH SYNOPSIS
   9 .nf
  10 .BI sln " source dest"
  11 .BI sln " filelist"
  12 .fi
  13 .SH DESCRIPTION
  14 The
  15 .B sln
  16 program creates symbolic links.
  17 Unlike the
  18 .BR ln (1)
  19 program, it is statically linked.
  20 This means that if for some reason the dynamic linker is not working,
  21 .BR sln
  22 can be used to make symbolic links to dynamic libraries.
  23 .PP
  24 The command line has two forms.
  25 In the first form, it creates
  26 .I dest
  27 as a new symbolic link to
  28 .IR source .
  29 .PP
  30 In the second form,
  31 .I filelist
  32 is a list of space-separated pathname pairs,
  33 and the effect is as if
  34 .BR sln
  35 was executed once for each line of the file,
  36 with the two pathnames as the arguments.
  37 .PP
  38 The
  39 .B sln
  40 program supports no command-line options.
  41 .SH SEE ALSO
  42 .BR ln (1),
  43 .BR ld.so (8),
  44 .BR ldconfig (8)