---
name: "sln"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "man-pages"
version: "6.19-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://carta.tech/man/sln/8"
---

# sln(8)

create symbolic links

## NAME

sln - create symbolic links

## SYNOPSIS

```
sln source dest
sln filelist
```

## DESCRIPTION

The **sln** program creates symbolic links. Unlike the [**ln**(1)](/man/ln/1.md) program, it is statically linked. This means that if for some reason the dynamic linker is not working, **sln** can be used to make symbolic links to dynamic libraries.

The command line has two forms. In the first form, it creates *dest* as a new symbolic link to *source*.

In the second form, *filelist* is a list of space-separated pathname pairs, and the effect is as if **sln** was executed once for each line of the file, with the two pathnames as the arguments.

The **sln** program supports no command-line options.

## SEE ALSO

[**ln**(1)](/man/ln/1.md), [**ld.so**(8)](/man/ld.so/8.md), [**ldconfig**(8)](/man/ldconfig/8.md)