On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:11 PM, HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> wrote: > $ cd /usr/bin > $ ls -l python* > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 9496 Oct 27 02:42 python > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Oct 29 19:34 python2 -> python > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 9496 Oct 27 02:42 python2.7 > $ diff -s python python2.7 > Files python and python2.7 are identical > $ > > I'm just curious: Why two identical files rather than a symlink?
It's not two files, it's a hardlink. You can confirm by running ls -li python* and comparing the inode numbers. -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
