In a file system, a link is the appearance of a resource in one location, when it’s actually somewhere else. The user finds the resource at the link; from there, the operating system delivers the resource.<\/p>\n
With a hard link, the resource appears to be located at the link, even to another program.<\/p>\n
A use for a hard link might be as follows: Let’s imagine you’ve a web page that runs a script. You save the script file at c:\\scripts\\script_file<\/em>. However, you want the page to find the script in its own directory, which might be c:\\html. You make a hard link in c:\\html that points to c:\\scripts\\script_file<\/em>. You might call the link c:\\html\\the_script_link.<\/p>\n With the Windows Command Prompt, the command would be<\/p>\n mklink \/h c:\\html\\the_script_link c:\\scripts\\script_file<\/p>\n Note the forward slash in front of the h, while the file system itself, being Windows, uses backslashes.<\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n