How to preserve pdf hyperlink after pdf file merge

I have a pdf doc that contains hyperlinks.  Those hyperlinks are individual pdf doc files.  I want to merge these files into a single pdf.  Can I do so and still preserve the original pdf hyperlink?  If I delete the individual files after merging the separate doc files into a single doc file, will this destroy the pdf hyperlink?  If so, what's the fix?

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