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Links a name with actual data (file). Hard-linking allows the file to have multiple names (handles). Present in POSIX-compliant systems (also only partially!): GNU/Linux, Android, Apple Mac OS X and even Windows, though with limitations. Allows for slightly different aliasing than soft-linking (aka symbolic linking) - there are trade-offs to each methods.

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