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prompter
Can you show me the order of the parameters when creating a symbolic link on the Linux command line?
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assistant
Sure! To create a symbolic link in Linux, you can use the `ln` command. The general syntax for creating a symbolic link on the Linux command line is as follows:

```sh
ln -s [target_file/directory] [link_name]
```

where:

- `-s`: This option is used to create a symbolic link.

- `target_file/directory`: This is the path to the file or directory that you want to create the link to.

- `link_name`: This is the name of the symbolic link that you want to create.

Here's an example that shows how you can create a symbolic link to a file named `sample.txt`:

```sh
ln -s sample.txt link_to_sample
```

In this example, `sample.txt` is the target file and `link_to_sample` is the symbolic link.
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prompter
What is the purpose of creating symbolic links? Does Windows have a similar feature?