Python method link() creates a hard link pointing to src named dst. This method is very useful to create a copy of existing file.
Following is the syntax for link() method:
os.link(src, dst)
This method does not return any value.
The following example shows the usage of link() method.
#!/usr/bin/python import os, sys # Open a file path = "/var/www/html/foo.txt" fd = os.open( path, os.O_RDWR'os.O_CREAT ) # Close opened file os.close( fd ) # Now create another copy of the above file. dst = "/tmp/foo.txt" os.link( path, dst) print "Created hard link successfully!!"
When we run the above program, it produces the following result:
print "Created hard link successfully!!"
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