Re: Hard links

[Topi Miettinen <Topi.Miettinen@ml.tele.fi>]

Joost Kooij writes:
> 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:

I really hadn't noticed that, thanks a lot! It's amazing how one can still
find new ls flags and output after so many years of using it. In previous
life 10 mins ago, I was comparing inode numbers. But now I have born again!

-Topi



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