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From: rae98@wash08.uucp (Robert A. Earl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding links
Keywords: ln
Message-ID: <1989Oct19.145110.19682@wash08.uucp>
Date: 19 Oct 89 14:51:10 GMT
References: <598@cogent.UUCP>
Reply-To: rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl)
Organization: American Chemical Society, Washington, DC
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In article <598@cogent.UUCP> doug@cogent.UUCP (Doug Perlich) writes:
>I ocasionally have problems working in large project groups when someone
>has a link (using ln) to a file.  I can't find the file that the link(s) are
>to.  (Different name, different directory).
>I want to type "findthelinktothefile foobar"
>and it will respond "/path1/path2/.../abc/foobee" and any other names
>linked to the file.
>Thanks -Doug

My SVR2 system has a utility called 'ncheck':
ncheck - generate names from i-numbers
SYNOPSIS
/etc/ncheck [ -i numbers ]  [ -a ] [ -s ]  [ file-system ]

So you would use 'ls -li file_name'
to get the inode number of the file, then use
'/etc/ncheck -i inum_of_file_name /dev/dsk/cur_file_system'
to get a complete listing of the files in the current file
system which share the inode (ie are linked together).

This don't work for symbolic links, of course.
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