Name
link
Synopsis
link oldfile, newfile
Creates a Unix hard link from a new filename,
newfile
, to an existing file,
oldfile
, on the same filesystem. The
function returns 1
for success,
0
otherwise (and puts the error
code into $!
). This function is
unlikely to be implemented on non-Unix systems. See also symlink .
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