Symbolic Links

This is one of the most useful commands. It is more commonly called a "symlink" and allows you to create shortcuts of your own.

This creates a shortcut or link called "newphotos" which points at the directory gallery142. This also works for files. You can check where a symlink goes to as follows:

You can then use it as if it were a normal directory. In this example, we see the symlink at work.