I think part of your problem with tar may be you are trying to use the -C option when creating the tarball. -C does nothing when creating the file, you have to cd. Meaning, your hardlinks may be ending up a directory or two deeper than you thought they were.
Hi,
what is link? and soft link? how about hard one and symbolic link.
and inode.
i get confuse about this links. could anyone help me with full explainsion?
thks
Gusla (5 Replies)
hi, i am in a directory, have 2 files as below
then do a ls -l gives the below
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 23 Mar 08 2001 filea -> /adir/filea
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 23 Mar 08 2001 filea -> /adir/fileb
now, when i do a cd /adir, the system said, adir not... (5 Replies)
From what I understand a symbolic link is alot like a shortcut where it points to another file. if the original file is deleted the symbolic link is rendered useless but a symbolic link can be deleted without any problem.
A hard link is like a copy of the file itself but pointing to the same... (3 Replies)
Hard links for directories are not permitted by default. But in some flavor of Unix, super user can create hard links for directories by some other way? Is that true? Is it possible in latest version of BSD or other unix? (2 Replies)
Ksh newbie here, so please bear with me.
I'm currently writing a script that searches through a directory and displays files with multiple hard links. The way I have it set up, is that it displays the i-node number and then each of the link names. In addition to this, I need to know if there... (7 Replies)
Hi team, i am writing a purge script to delete softlinks and hardlinks on linux system which are 3/10/30 days old. To test the script i need to create links with old timestamp, i am able to cange timestamp for files but not for links.
i tried touch -h option but this option is not available on... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Satyak
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
ln
LN(1) General Commands Manual LN(1)NAME
ln - make links
SYNOPSIS
ln [ -s ] sourcename [ targetname ]
ln [ -s ] sourcename1 sourcename2 [ sourcename3 ... ] targetdirectory
DESCRIPTION
A link is a directory entry referring to a file; the same file (together with its size, all its protection information, etc.) may have
several links to it. There are two kinds of links: hard links and symbolic links.
By default ln makes hard links. A hard link to a file is indistinguishable from the original directory entry; any changes to a file are
effective independent of the name used to reference the file. Hard links may not span file systems and may not refer to directories.
The -s option causes ln to create symbolic links. A symbolic link contains the name of the file to which it is linked. The referenced
file is used when an open(2) operation is performed on the link. A stat(2) on a symbolic link will return the linked-to file; an lstat(2)
must be done to obtain information about the link. The readlink(2) call may be used to read the contents of a symbolic link. Symbolic
links may span file systems and may refer to directories.
Given one or two arguments, ln creates a link to an existing file sourcename. If targetname is given, the link has that name; targetname
may also be a directory in which to place the link; otherwise it is placed in the current directory. If only the directory is specified,
the link will be made to the last component of sourcename.
Given more than two arguments, ln makes links in targetdirectory to all the named source files. The links made will have the same name as
the files being linked to.
SEE ALSO rm(1), cp(1), mv(1), link(2), readlink(2), stat(2), symlink(2)4th Berkeley Distribution April 10, 1986 LN(1)