On Wednesday 03 February 2010 21:43:31 Stefan Schulte wrote: > Hi Jarry, > > searching for softlinks is pretty easy: > > find / -type l > > If my understanding of hardlinks is correct you cannot say which file is > the original and which file is the link.
It's worse than that - the concept of "original" and "the link" simply does not exist at all. Like invisible pink unicorns; you can't say "you can't see them so you can't say if it's there or not". The truth is "There are no invisible pink unicorns" > Both inodes just point to the > same datablocks. But you can identify those files by checking the > linkcount. > > find / -type f -links '+1' > > -Stefan > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 07:37:36PM +0100, Jarry wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just out of curiosity: is there any quick way to find all > > hard- and soft-links on a system? I just want to be sure > > they were all created after I moved system from the old disk > > to the new one... > > > > Jarry > -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
