Symbolic Link
A symbolic link is a reference to another file. This special file is stored as a textual representation of the referenced file's path (which means the destination may be a relative path, or may not exist at all).
A symbolic link is marked with an l (lower case L) as the first letter of the mode string, e.g.
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