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From: hager@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Donald E. Hager)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: finding the missing links
Keywords: ln
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Date: 30 May 89 17:57:31 GMT
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In article <207@flattop.UUCP> rcm@flattop.UUCP (Ron McDowell) writes:
>At the risk of starting another 'RTFM' war, I'd like the answer to a simple
>question:  
>
>$ echo "hello world" > $HOME/xxx ; ln xxx /tmp/yyy ; ln xxx /usr/tmp/zzz
>
>I do a 'ls -l /tmp' and see that yyy has 3 links.  How can I find the other
>two files?

The other two files are xxx and zzz.  Whenever you do a 'ln', it doesn't
create another copy of the file, but instead it "links" (or "points")
the file to the same inode.  If you do an "ls -i $HOME/xxx /tmp/yyy
/usr/tmp/zzz" you will see that all the files have the same inode
number.  I hope this helps.
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