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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Hard Link Examples Post 302442801 by jaysunn on Thursday 5th of August 2010 01:07:15 PM
Old 08-05-2010
Hard Link Examples
Hello,
Please move this if I chose the wrong forum category. This question pertains to Unix and Linux I believe. I google the difference between hard and symbolic/soft links and I understand the difference. What I am trying to find is a real example of a hard link being used in a Operating system.

e.g.

RedHat uses softlinks from:

Code:
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 Jul 16 11:14 S98haldaemon -> ../init.d/haldaemon
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 Jul 16 11:14 S99firstboot -> ../init.d/firstboot
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   11 Jul 19 15:39 S99local -> ../rc.local
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   16 Jul 16 11:12 S99smartd -> ../init.d/smartd

I would like to find a hard link example. Can some one show me one please?

Thanks,
jaysunn
Last edited by jaysunn; 08-05-2010 at 02:21 PM..
 

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build-jar-repository

BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1) 					   User Commands					   BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)

NAME

       build-jar-repository - create a symbolic link to a JAR

SYNOPSIS

       build-jar-repository [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... JAR

DESCRIPTION

       Build a JAR repository in the named directory by copying files or creating symbolic links

OPTIONS

       If no option is specified the default action will be to create symbolic links

       -c, --copy
	      copy files

       -h, --hard
	      create hard links

       -p, --preserve-naming
	      try  to  preserve  the  names  of  the original JAR files (in case of a nested hit the slashes in the path will still be replaced by
	      underscores)

	      using this option makes any future automated repository rebuild impossible, and implies -c unless specified otherwise

       -s, --soft, --symbolic
	      create symbolic links (default)

       --help
	      display help text

EXAMPLES

       build-jar-repository . jndi
	      will create a symbolic link to the JNDI JAR in the current working directory

       build-jar-repository -h /tmp oro
	      will create a hard link to the ORO JAR in /tmp

AUTHOR

       Written by Nicholas Mailhot and David Walluck

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs using JPackage Bugzilla (http://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla/)

build-jar-repository (jpackage-utils) 1.7.0			    March 2006						   BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)
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