Thanks for your answer (I have now 133 more free blocks) but on my
system they were really taking space. I guess it should be report as a bug if
it causes no problem now.
/home/dodo# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3 762938 656385 67141 91% /
/home/dodo# rm /bin/fgrep
/home/dodo# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3 762938 656317 67209 91% /
/home/dodo# rm /bin/egrep
/home/dodo# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3 762938 656249 67277 91% /
/home/dodo# ln /bin/grep /bin/egrep
/home/dodo# ln /bin/grep /bin/fgrep
/home/dodo# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3 762938 656252 67274 91% /
/home/dodo#
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997 George Bonser wrote:
>I don't know about your system but on mine they are all hard links. These
>look like regular files in a listing as opposed to symbolic likns which
>show as links in a long directory listing.
>
>In other words, if you delete egrep and fgrep, you will not see any change
>in the amount of disk space used. You use ln /bin/grep /bin/egrep to put
>the link back (instead of ln -s).
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