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Old 09-15-2010
A Basic Question About Links
How can you tell if a file is linked to another file??????

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Old 09-15-2010
what says ls -la <filename>?

if its linked it'll be in the order of:

<filename> --> ../../opt/bin/<filename>

ie. you'll see the pointer (-->) to another file.
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Old 09-15-2010
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For soft links:
Directory listing permissions from "ls -la" starts character "l"
e.g.
lrwxr-xr-x

if [ -h filename ]
then
        echo "file is a soft link"
fi

You cannot tell simply whether a file has soft links pointing to that file

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For hard links:
The link count field in directory listing from "ls -la" has a value greater than one.
Two or more files in the same mounted filesystem have the same inode number.
You can use "find" to find all the hard links to a file.

Last edited by methyl; 09-15-2010 at 12:03 PM.. Reason: too wide
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Old 09-16-2010
This command will show you all the link files:

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ls -l | grep "^l"
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