[plug] Identifying harded files

Ryan ryan at is.as.geeky.as
Thu May 8 13:20:37 WST 2003


Lo PLUG,

How does one _easily_ identify hard linked files?

Take for example a smylinked file - 'ls -l' will show it as:

-rwxrwxrwx    1 ryan    ryan      953704 Apr  2 07:40 file1 -> file2


Now hard linked files - 'ls -li' will show it as:

618955 -rwxrwxrwx    1 ryan    ryan     953704 Apr  2 07:40 file1
618955 -rwxrwxrwx    1 ryan    ryan     953704 Apr  2 07:40 file2


In a big long list, the only way is to match up the inode numbers, which
is rather labour intensive.

Is there any other way to find hard linked files in a directory - the
purpose being to identify quickly for my eyes that the file is not
actually another REAL file taking up storage space.

TIA,

Ryan



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