# symbolic link

> filesystem object containing a reference to another object by path

**Wikidata**: [Q646197](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q646197)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/symbolic-link


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [Source](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/blob/2.3/data/freedesktop.org.xml.in#L5970-5972)
3. [Source](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/xml/cwec_latest.xml.zip)