Re: Hard links

[Joost Kooij <kooij@mpn.cp.philips.com>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Topi Miettinen wrote:

> - It's hard to notice hard links, they look exactly like normal files
> (AFAIK, there are no tools exept ls -li and find -inum). Many programs
> support symbolic links, including web/ftp servers.

kooij@pc47:/home/kooij> $ ls -l /bin/*grep
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root     root        74228 Mar 15 23:24 /bin/egrep
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root     root        74228 Mar 15 23:24 /bin/fgrep
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root     root        74228 Mar 15 23:24 /bin/grep

IIRC, the "3"'s in the second column indicate the number of files
associated with this inode. Indeed, `man ls` tells me:

       -l, --format=long, --format=verbose
              In  addition  to  the  name of each file, print the
              file type, permissions, number of hard links, owner
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
              name, group name, size in bytes, and timestamp (the
              modification time unless other times are selected).
              For  files  with  a time that is more than 6 months
              old or more than 1 hour into the future, the times
              tamp  contains the year instead of the time of day.

Cheers,


Joost


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