create symbolic link in linux

Symbolic link is a shortcut or alias to another file in linux, unix, mac or any other nix systems.
The syntax for creating a symbolic link:
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ln -s "target file" "shortcut"
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Example
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ln -s /usr/local/bin/myscript.sh myscript.sh
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After the above command, if you do a ls -l you will see something like this which tells you that the symbolic link(myscript.sh) in your current directory is point to /usr/local/bin/myscript.sh
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lrwxr-xr-x myscript.sh -> /usr/local/bin/myscript.sh
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To unlink the symbolic link
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unlink myscript.sh
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