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The Monday 2007-04-30 at 22:40 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> As I mentioned, hard links are not special entities. All directory
> entries are hard links. The "ln" command just creates "extra" hard
> links to the same file system entity as one referred to by an existing
> directory entry. As such, they're not specially signified in the output
> of any command.
Well, yes, they are:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/pp> touch pepe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/pp> ln pepe jose
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/pp> touch juan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/pp> l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 cer users 39 2007-05-01 12:03 ./
drwxr-xr-x 12 cer users 4096 2007-03-06 23:41 ../
- -rw-r--r-- 2 cer users 0 2007-05-01 12:03 jose
- -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 0 2007-05-01 12:03 juan
- -rw-r--r-- 2 cer users 0 2007-05-01 12:03 pepe
^
Above, "jose" is a hardlink to "pepe", whereas "juan" is a lone file; the
number "2" is the number of links.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/pp> stat jose pepe juan
File: `jose'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty
file
Device: 30bh/779d Inode: 25670212 Links: 2
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 500/ cer) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2007-05-01 12:03:12.860372862 +0200
Modify: 2007-05-01 12:03:12.860372862 +0200
Change: 2007-05-01 12:03:22.321055722 +0200
File: `pepe'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty
file
Device: 30bh/779d Inode: 25670212 Links: 2
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 500/ cer) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2007-05-01 12:03:12.860372862 +0200
Modify: 2007-05-01 12:03:12.860372862 +0200
Change: 2007-05-01 12:03:22.321055722 +0200
File: `juan'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty
file
Device: 30bh/779d Inode: 25670217 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 500/ cer) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2007-05-01 12:03:30.331940407 +0200
Modify: 2007-05-01 12:03:30.331940407 +0200
Change: 2007-05-01 12:03:30.331940407 +0200
The dificult thing is to find out who the other hardlinked name is.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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