os.link() - os

             
The method link() creates a hard link pointing to src named dst. This method is very useful to create a copy of existing file.


src -- This is the source file path for which hard link would be created. 
dest -- This is the target file path where hard link would be created.

Syntax

os.link(src, dst)

Example

#!/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!!"

Output / Return Value

This would produce following result:


print "Created hard link successfully!!"

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