[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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