This method creates a hard link pointing to src named dst. This method is very useful to create a copy of existing file.
Syntax:
os.link(src, dst)
Parameters:
Here is the detail of parameters:
src: This is the source file path for which hard link would be created.
dst: This is the target file path where hard link would be created.
Example:
#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys
# Open a file
path = "/var/www/html/foo.txt"
fd = os.open( path, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREAT )
# Close opened file
os.close( fd )
# Now create another copy of the above file.
dst = "/tmp/foo.txt"
os.link( path, dst)
print "Created hard link successfully!!"