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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: ln question
Message-ID: <1990Feb12.133212.10029@twwells.com>
Date: 12 Feb 90 13:32:12 GMT
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In article <13085@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) writes:
: question:  Does 'ln'ing a file make multiple copies?
:
: Reason I ask is thus: After I ln a file, then do a ls on it, it doesn't
: show that it's a linked file (unless I do ln -s).  Furthermore, it appears
: to be taking up the same amount of space.
:
: What's the right answer?

Linking merely makes an entry in a directory; no new copies are
created. Do an ls -l and look at the second column of the
listing, the link count to see that something has happened when
you do a link.

This kind of question should be asked of someone local, rather
than of the whole net. However, if you can't find someone local
to answer your questions, try the newsgroup comp.unix.questions.

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