routine symlink
Documentation for routine symlink
assembled from the following types:
class IO::Path
From IO::Path
(IO::Path) routine symlink
Defined as:
method symlink(IO::Path : IO() --> Bool)sub symlink( IO() , IO() --> Bool)
Create a new symbolic link $link
to existing $target
. Returns True
on success; fails with X::IO::Symlink if the symbolic link could not be created. If $target
does not exist, creates a dangling symbolic link. To create a hard link, see link
.
Note: on Windows, creation of symbolic links may require escalated privileges.