Re: hard,soft,link,inode
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Okay neato -samefile with compliment inum On 10/14/20 4:18 PM, Casey Dentinger wrote: > Just read up and on most systems (though not strictly posix) find has a -samefile option for finding all the hard links. > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, at 4:06 PM, Casey Dentinger wrote: >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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