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
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