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diff --git a/man/man8/sln.8 b/man/man8/sln.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0bb74c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man8/sln.8 @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2013 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH sln 8 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +sln \- create symbolic links +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BI sln " source dest" +.BI sln " filelist" +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B sln +program creates symbolic links. +Unlike the +.BR ln (1) +program, it is statically linked. +This means that if for some reason the dynamic linker is not working, +.B sln +can be used to make symbolic links to dynamic libraries. +.P +The command line has two forms. +In the first form, it creates +.I dest +as a new symbolic link to +.IR source . +.P +In the second form, +.I filelist +is a list of space-separated pathname pairs, +and the effect is as if +.B sln +was executed once for each line of the file, +with the two pathnames as the arguments. +.P +The +.B sln +program supports no command-line options. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR ln (1), +.BR ld.so (8), +.BR ldconfig (8) |