$  cat > orig.txt
This is original file
$  ln -s orig.txt lnk
$  ls -ltr orig* lnk*
-rw-r--r--   1 vaibhav   grp           22 Jun 17 22:31 orig.txt
lrwxrwxrwx   1 vaibhav   grp            8 Jun 17 22:32 lnk -> orig.txt
$  cat lnk
This is original file
$  rm orig.txt
$  ls -ltr orig* lnk*
orig*: No such file or directory
lrwxrwxrwx   1 vaibhav   grp            8 Jun 17 22:32 lnk -> orig.txt
$  cat lnk
cat: cannot open lnk
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