Re: grep

["desbiensd@cedep.net" <dodo@204.19.108.200>]

	Thanks for your answer (I have now 133 more free blocks) but on my system they were really taking space. I guess it should be report as a bug if it causes no problem now.

/home/dodo# df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3             762938  656385    67141     91%   /
/home/dodo# rm /bin/fgrep
/home/dodo# df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3             762938  656317    67209     91%   /
/home/dodo# rm /bin/egrep
/home/dodo# df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3             762938  656249    67277     91%   /
/home/dodo# ln /bin/grep /bin/egrep 
/home/dodo# ln /bin/grep /bin/fgrep 
/home/dodo# df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3             762938  656252    67274     91%   /
/home/dodo# 



On Fri, 26 Dec 1997  George Bonser wrote:


>I don't know about your system but on mine they are all hard links. These
>look like regular files in a listing as opposed to symbolic likns which
>show as links in a long directory listing.
>
>In other words, if you delete egrep and fgrep, you will not see any change
>in the amount of disk space used. You use ln /bin/grep /bin/egrep to put
>the link back (instead of ln -s).


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