A soft link is one created with a ln -s command, as contrasted with a hard link (no -s option). It's sometimes confusing which commands follow links and which don't, i.e. if you cp a link, which moves? The link or the file it points to? These commands act upon the link itself These command act upon the file pointed to by the link, i.e. they follow links. vi These commands need to be checked. cp mv rm