SYMLINK(1)

📦 version 1.8.16.1, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, welcome to the symlink command suite 💖 this one's a little niche (it's Windows only, iykyk) but she's literally doing iconic work, so let's get into it ✨

🦋 NAME

symlink — your intro to the whole symlink command suite 🎀 (Windows only, bestie, don't come for me)

🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so here's the vibe: symlink creates, lists and removes Unix-style symbolic links (aka symlinks) in OpenAFS filespace — from a platform that doesn't even support symlinks natively, like Windows. no cap, she's bridging worlds 🫶

the symlink make command is literally the equivalent of ln -s on a Unix platform. same energy, different platform 💅

and the crossover?? iconic. symlink can manipulate symlinks created by ln -s on Unix, and vice versa. it's giving interoperability main character energy ✨

⚠️ CAUTIONS

okay so real talk before anyone gets too excited: the symlink commands are only available on Windows platforms. that's not a vibe check, that's just a fact 😭 on any other platform, you just use the ln -s command instead. periodt.

✨ OPTIONS

  • -help — prints the online help for this command 🎀 and just so you know, all other valid options are ignored when you use it. so like, don't bother stacking flags, she's not listening 💀

👀 SEE ALSO

the whole friend group, obvs 💜

Copyright 2007 Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> 🌈

This documentation is covered by the BSD License as written in the doc/LICENSE file. This man page was written by Jason Edgecombe for OpenAFS. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🍓 mwah 💋

with love from the OpenAFS gang, dated 2026-06-25 🧚‍♀️⭐

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