Symlinks in Unix OSes

Around a year back, this was actually tip or quite a new information to me. I was really shocked to know that I didn’t know the fact. :-( Well the information is the symbolic link (the soft links) have the same size as the number of characters in it’s target

Creating the soft link,

ln -s /hdb9/SuSe9.3/SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso Suse1.iso

ls -l Suse1.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 guest guest 40 May 1 01:21 Suse1.iso -> /hdb9/SuSe9.3/SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso

wc - (to take input from stdin)
/hdb9/SuSe9.3/SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso (Ctrl + D here to get the results)
0 1 40 -

Signing off..