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From: mikej@lilink.UUCP (Michael R. Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: finding the missing links
Keywords: ln
Message-ID: <704@lilink.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 12:00:09 GMT
References: <207@flattop.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikej@lilink.UUCP (Michael R. Johnston)
Organization: LILINK Public Xenix, Long Island, New York
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In article <207@flattop.UUCP> rcm@flattop.UUCP (Ron McDowell) writes:
>
>$ 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 simplest way I know of is to say:
       ls -i xxx        [command returns inode #]
       ncheck -i inode_number

This will return the paths to all the files that share the same inode #.
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Michael R. Johnston
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