Re: duplicate binaries
[BIG snip]
Look at this:
$ ls -li /bin/*grep* /usr/bin/*grep*
6071 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 74308 Apr 11 1998 /bin/egrep*
6071 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 74308 Apr 11 1998 /bin/fgrep*
6071 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 74308 Apr 11 1998 /bin/grep*
139868 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13248 Dec 21 1997 /usr/bin/rgrep*
139300 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1375 Apr 26 1998 /usr/bin/zegrep*
139300 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1375 Apr 26 1998 /usr/bin/zfgrep*
139300 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1375 Apr 26 1998 /usr/bin/zgrep*
As you can see, the grep programs in /bin and three of the grep programs
in /usr/bin have the same inode numbers, so they are actually one program
with a couple of hard links to them.
No waste of space at all.
--
Andreas Persenius
andreas@alfaskop.net
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