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Links allow you to give a single file multiple names. Files are
actually identified to the system by their inode number, which is
just the unique filesystem identifier for the file[Footnote]. A directory is actually
a listing of inode numbers with their corresponding filenames. Each
filename in a directory is a link to a particular inode.