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The Tuesday 2007-05-01 at 06:47 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > As such, they're not specially signified
> > > in the output of any command.
> >
> > Well, yes, they are:
>
> All hard links to a given entity are co-equal. Unlike symlinks, where
I know that. I'm just pointing out that "ls -l" does report the
existence and number of hardlinks for a file.
> > The difficult thing is to find out who the other hardlinked name is.
>
> In the old days, we had "ncheck" which would exhaustively search a file
> system for all directory entries that refer to a given inode number,
> trace their parentage back to the root and print that resulting name.
>
> Nowadays (where it appears ncheck is gone), one can use the "-samefile"
> option of find:
Good to know.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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