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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Hard links for directories. Post 302447757 by Yogesh Sawant on Tuesday 24th of August 2010 07:33:09 AM
Old 08-24-2010
info ln told me:
Quote:
On all existing implementations, you cannot make a hard link to a
directory, and hard links cannot cross file system boundaries. (These
restrictions are not mandated by POSIX, however.)
 

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REBUILD-JAR-REPOSI(1)						Java Packages Tools					     REBUILD-JAR-REPOSI(1)

NAME
rebuild-jar-repository - rebuild a JAR repository SYNOPSIS
rebuild-jar-repository [OPTION]... DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION
Rebuild a jar repository (built by build-jar-repository) based on the current JVM settings OPTIONS
If no option is specified the default action will be to rebuild with symbolic links -c, --copy Copy files. -h, --hard Create hard links. -s, --soft, --symbolic Create symbolic links (default). EXAMPLES
rebuild-jar-repository . - This will update all links created by build-jar-repository in the current working directory. Updated links will be symbolic links. rebuild-jar-repository -h /tmp - This will update all links created by build-jar-repository in the /tmp directory. Updated links will be hard links. AUTHOR
Written by the JPackage Project (http://www.jpackage.org/). REPORTING BUGS
Bugs should be reported through Red Hat Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/. SEE ALSO
build-jar-repository(1), build-classpath(1), JAVAPACKAGES
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