ln (hard and symbolic links) in Linux CLI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to create a hard link named 'linkfile' to 'originalfile'.

Linux CLI

ln [1] originalfile linkfile

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-s

B(no option)

C-h

D-f

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -s option creates a symbolic link instead of a hard link.

Using -h is not a valid option for ln.

To create a hard link, you use ln without any options. The -s option is for symbolic links.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to create a symbolic link named 'symblink' to 'targetfile'.

Linux CLI

ln [1] targetfile symblink

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-s

B-f

C-h

D-l

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Omitting the -s option creates a hard link instead.

Using -l is not a valid option for ln.

The -s option tells ln to create a symbolic (soft) link.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to create a symbolic link named 'link' to 'file.txt'.

Linux CLI

ln [1] file.txt link

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-s

B-h

C-f

D--symbolic

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -h instead of -s.

Omitting the option creates a hard link.

The correct option for symbolic links is -s. Using -h is invalid.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a symbolic link named 'link' pointing to 'file.txt' and force overwrite if 'link' exists.

Linux CLI

ln [1] [2] file.txt link

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-s

B-f

C-h

D-l

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -h which is invalid.

Forgetting to use -f to overwrite existing links.

Use -s for symbolic link and -f to force overwrite existing links.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a hard link named 'hardlink' to 'data.txt' and then list the links with inode numbers.

Linux CLI

ln [1] data.txt hardlink && ls -i [2] [3]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A(no option)

Bdata.txt

Chardlink

D-s

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -s option creates symbolic link instead of hard link.

Listing only one file does not show inode comparison.

Hard links are created without options (empty string). Then ls -i lists inode numbers of both files to verify they share the same inode.