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Operating Systems Solaris Hard Links and Soft or Sym links Post 302565047 by solaris_user on Sunday 16th of October 2011 01:45:52 PM
Old 10-16-2011
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Originally Posted by mk-china
why do need to use the hard link from the beginig can pleas help me i am learning unix by my self so i do not know why do need the hard link or soft link


what if i donot link the file

any problem

thank you
If you have hard link inside some directory and then you make some changes on file created with hard link than that file won't be affected because they don't share common address space so there is no sync between that two file. If you create file with symbolic link and the edit file cretaed with symbolic link original file on which that link points will be changed. If you delete symbolic link original file won't be deleted but if you delete original file than a symbolic link is also deleted because they share common virtual address space and sync is possible between that two files.
 

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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/)

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