sln(8)

💖 sln — create symbolic links 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is a tiny little page from section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, and it is genuinely iconic. it's called sln, it makes symlinks, and it's the emergency backup bestie you didn't know you needed. 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sln source dest
sln filelist

two whole moods. pick your fighter. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, the sln program creates symbolic links. simple. gorgeous. no notes. 🌸

but here's the plot twist that makes it main character: unlike the ln(1) program, sln is statically linked. and the way that matters is — if for some reason the dynamic linker is not working, sln can be used to make symbolic links to dynamic libraries. 😭✨ like, when everything else is in shambles and the dynamic linker has left the chat, sln is still standing there, statically linked, ready to help. that's real friend behavior ngl. 💀💖

the command line has two forms, and yes you have to know both, that's just the vibes:

• first form — it creates dest as a new symbolic link to source. cute, direct, one link, done. 🎀
• second form — filelist is a list of space-separated pathname pairs, and the effect is as if sln was executed once for each line of the file, with the two pathnames as the arguments. so it's like batch mode, slay. 🦋

and a heads up because this part is important:

the sln program supports no command-line options. zero. none. no flags, no --help, no secret extras. you give it paths and it does its thing. periodt. 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these too, bestie, they're all part of the same friend group:

• ln(1)
• ld.so(8)
• ldconfig(8)

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page. this little love letter came to you from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08, and yeah it's sln(8) — the statically linked queen stays winning. no cap, fr fr, iykyk 🌈⭐💜