Creating Symbolic Links

Symbolic links lets you to create a link to the actual file. i.e. The link created will point to the file that is present at different location.

Ex:

[oracle@localhost dbs]$ ln -s $ORACLE_BASE/admin/PROD/pfile/initPROD.ora initPROD.ora

In the above example, a symbolic link is created in the 'dbs' folder that will actually point to the initPROD.ora file present at different location. Advantage is that you keep seperated the init files from where the software is present.

i.e [oracle@localhost dbs]$ ln -s {source} {destination}