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From: rae98@wash08.uucp (Robert A. Earl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding links
Keywords: ln
Message-ID: <1989Oct20.124940.2899@wash08.uucp>
Date: 20 Oct 89 12:49:40 GMT
References: <598@cogent.UUCP> <8222@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl)
Organization: American Chemical Society, Washington, DC
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In article <8222@cbmvax.UUCP> ag@cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
[ Long explanation about inodes and using 'find -inum' deleted
					      for the sake of brevity ]
>[*] Files can have links to files on other partitions, but this is
>done through a mechanism call 'soft links' that may not exist on your
>system (they exist on berkeley derived or sufficiently mutated SYSV
>systems).  You can tell if a file is a soft link by doing an 'ls -l',
>as:
>$ ls -l /tmp/Aen.c
>lrwxr-xr-x  1 ag              5 Oct 19 08:04 /tmp/Aen.c -> /z/unix/ag/aen.c
Just so you know, Keith, my "sufficiently mutated SYSV system" has
symbolic links (your 'soft links') (NCR Tower 32/650 SVR2), but the
output of 'ls -l' does not show this.  I am not claiming this is right
or wrong (personally, I like the BSD listing you showed...it is very
clear that not only is it a link, but it is linked to /z/unix/ag/aen.c),
just that it exists.
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