LINK(1P)

📦 version 2017a, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

okay so this one's from the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and it's literally just link — the utility, not the function, well… okay it is basically the function but shhh. 🎀

✨ PROLOG ✨

so real talk, this page lives inside the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — like, consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior — or honestly the interface may not even be implemented on Linux at all. 💀 no cap, check first.

🌸 NAME 🌸

link — call link() function. that's it. that's the whole job. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

link file1 file2

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The link utility shall perform the function call:

link(file1, file2);

A user may need appropriate privileges to invoke the link utility. so like… you might need the glow-up permissions for this one, bestie. 🔥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

None.

not a single one. zero flags. we love a low-maintenance icon. 👑

🎀 OPERANDS 🎀

The following operands shall be supported:

  • file1 — The pathname of an existing file. (it has to already exist, okay, we're not manifesting a whole new file out of nowhere ✨)
  • file2 — The pathname of the new directory entry to be created.

🌈 STDIN 🌈

Not used. she's not reading from your keyboard today.

🍓 INPUT FILES 🍓

Not used. nothing gets read. she's just out here making links.

💜 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 💜

The following environment variables shall affect the execution of link:

  • LANG — Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale categories.) iykyk 💫
  • LC_ALL — If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables.
  • LC_CTYPE — Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
  • LC_MESSAGES — Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
  • NLSPATH — Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.

🧚 ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS 🧚

Default. she's keeping it standard, no chaos energy here.

⭐ STDOUT ⭐

None. absolutely nothing printed to your terminal. silence is golden, bestie.

🌸 STDERR 🌸

The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages. so if you see words there, it's her telling you something went wrong 😭

🎀 OUTPUT FILES 🎀

None.

💖 EXTENDED DESCRIPTION 💖

None. no secret extra lore. the whole thing is above. periodt.

👑 EXIT STATUS 👑

The following exit values shall be returned:

  • 0 — Successful completion. slay, it worked 💅
  • >0 — An error occurred. 🙈

🔥 CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS 🔥

Default.

The following sections are informative.

🌈 APPLICATION USAGE 🌈

None.

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

None. (they really said "figure it out" 😭 but like, it's two arguments, you got this)

💜 RATIONALE 💜

None.

🍓 FUTURE DIRECTIONS 🍓

None. she's stable, she's fine, she's not going anywhere.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

  • ln
  • unlink
  • The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 8, Environment Variables
  • The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2017, link()

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole page bestie — brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, 2017. go make some links, you absolute main character. 💅✨🫶

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