Am 12.02.2012 17:04, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > Le dimanche 12 février 2012 à 16:52 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit : >>> Why hard links? Symlinks are much more introspectable. When looking at >>> a hard link I have no easy way to know it's the same as whatever other >>> file in the same directory. >> >> There actually *is* an easy way, in regular ls: look at the link count. >> It comes out of ls -l by default, and if it's >1, there will be an >> identical file. > > This doesn't tell me which file it is
Well, you didn't ask for that, it does "to know it's the same as whatever other file" nicely :-) As Charles-François explains, you can use ls -i for that, which isn't that easy, but still straight-forward. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
