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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: /bin/e, /bin/ed, /bin/red
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Date: 3 Jan 90 01:40:15 GMT
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In article <SAUS.90Jan2175225@media-lab.media.mit.edu> saus@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Mark Sausville) writes:
>/bin/e, /bin/ed and /bin/red are all the same.

They're not only identical, but they are actually the SAME file.  They are
all hard links to the same file.  Use "ls -li" and you'll see that they
have the same i-node number.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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