[nmglug] hard,soft,link,inode

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Okay neato -samefile with compliment inum

On 10/14/20 4:18 PM, Casey Dentinger wrote:
> Just read up and on most systems (though not strictly posix) find has a -samefile option for finding all the hard links.
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, at 4:06 PM, Casey Dentinger wrote:
>> When you ls -l
>>
>> -rw-r--r--  1
>>
>> That number after the mode is the number of hard links.  Hard links are
>> all literally the file and share its attributes so I don't think one
>> would be considered the original.  As for sym links they are just files
>> on disk that afaik the target knows nothing about.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, at 3:56 PM, a wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> If I have a file or directory and would like to now if it is the
>>> original file or directory of a link can I confirm the fact by reading
>>> an inode some where or some how?
>>>
>>>    Thanks, a
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