-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGN0yEtTMYHG2NR9URAvVBAJ9IXnIs0zZFq1NUegkK8pBQME1ePACfa80D gynmh6phpbiPKoemx9N/NV4= =SIjk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org