Re: how to find all hard links of the same file

[Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com>]

linuksos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> or you can try to search for all files which have more than one link:
>
> find </your/path/to/search/> -type f -links +1 -ls

Since the actual location of the file is unknown and the find command 
gets names from directories in the order found (not sorted in any way), 
I'd suggest running a pipe to a numeric sort:

  find .... -ls | sort -n -k1

Then, your common inode value (the samefile) will be together.  Another 
option, if you're working on a system that has a more primitive version 
of 'find' (no -xdev, -samefile options, for example) would be to use:

  ls -i file

which outputs the file's inode, then do a:

  find <root_of_filesystem> -inum inode_number

Note that the <root_of_filesystem> is the mount point for the device 
where the file exists.  You can get this quickly by using:

  df .

in the directory where the file of interest exists.

--
Bob McGowan

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