Re: hard,soft,link,inode
"Casey Dentinger" <dentinger-K2AqhncCoRRH4x6Dk/[email protected]>
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When you ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 That number after the mode is the number of hard links. Hard links are all literally the file and share its attributes so I don't think one would be considered the original. As for sym links they are just files on disk that afaik the target knows nothing about. On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, at 3:56 PM, a wrote: > Hi > > If I have a file or directory and would like to now if it is the > original file or directory of a link can I confirm the fact by reading > an inode some where or some how? > > Thanks, a > > _______________________________________________ > nmglug mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org > _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org