LINK(1) General Commands Manual LINK(1)

link — call the link() function

link file1 file2

The link utility performs the function call:

link(file1, file2);

A user may need appropriate privilege to invoke the link utility.

None.

The following operands are supported:

file1
The pathname of an existing file.
file2
The pathname of the new directory entry to be created.

Not used.

Not used.

The following environment variables affect the execution of link :

Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the implementation-dependent default locale will be used. If any of the internationalization variables contain an invalid setting, the utility will behave as if none of the variables had been set.
If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables.
Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single- as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
Determine the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES .

Default.

None.

Used only for diagnostic messages.

None.

None.

The following exit values are returned:

Successful completion.
An error occurred.

Default.

None.

None.

None.

ln(1) , unlink(1) , the XSH specification description of link(3) .

February 1997 posix.fail