I'm not sure how that relates to my question Walter but thanks.  ls -i gets
you there too.  :)
-g


On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:56 AM, Walter de Jong <walter.dej...@surfsara.nl>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You can use `stat` to see that the inode numbers are identical. Hardlinked
> files also have a link count higher than 1.
>
> $ echo hello >file1
>
> $ ln file1 file2
>
> $ stat file1
>   File: `file1'
>   Size: 6               Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
> Device: 802h/2050d      Inode: 134366889   Links: 2
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (31002/  walter)   Gid: (31013/  walter)
> Access: 2017-02-20 08:47:47.113865575 +0100
> Modify: 2017-02-20 08:47:47.113865575 +0100
> Change: 2017-02-20 08:47:52.210053451 +0100
>  Birth: -
>
> $ stat file2
>   File: `file2'
>   Size: 6               Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
> Device: 802h/2050d      Inode: 134366889   Links: 2
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (31002/  walter)   Gid: (31013/  walter)
> Access: 2017-02-20 08:47:47.113865575 +0100
> Modify: 2017-02-20 08:47:47.113865575 +0100
> Change: 2017-02-20 08:47:52.210053451 +0100
>  Birth: -
>
>
> Greets,
>
>     --Walter
>
>
>
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 02:59:04 +0100, greg whynott <greg.whyn...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a method to exclude hardlinks from being transferred which exist
>> within the data set to be transferred, yet are recreated on the other end?
>>   (using url-copy or any other tool)
>>
>> An example.  In the below scenario only two files would actually cross the
>> wire,  file1.gz and subdir/file1.gz.  file2.gz would be detected as a
>> hardlink and excluded,   file2.gz's hardlink would be recreated on the
>> remote end.
>>
>> cp /opt/xfer/file1.gz /home/globus/xfer/file1.gz
>> cp /opt/xfer/file1.gz /home/globus/xfer/subdir/file1.gz
>> ln /home/globus/xfer/file1.gz /home/globus/xfer/file2.gz
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> greg
>>
>>
>
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