Hi all!
I'd like to know the differences between hard links and soft links. I've already read the ln manpage, but i'm not quite sure of what i understood.
Does a hard link sort of copy the file to a new name, give it the same inode number and same rights?
What exactly should I do to do this:... (3 Replies)
I am curious about one thing.
Lets say I have a file file-a to which new generations are created on demand by simply archiving it (ex: file-a.tar.gz) and having the new one created with the same original filename file-a.
Now what I want to know is if I create a hard/soft link to file-a, what... (1 Reply)
Hi
PLease let me know the usage of Hard Link vs Soft Link
i.e what is the basic difference and what happens when one file is changed or deleted in both the cases???
thanks (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
Please help me out to find out difference between a hard link and a soft link.
I am new in unix plz help me with some example commands ( for creating such links).
Regards
S.Kamakshi :) (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have created soft links for some devices /dev/xvd*1. The owner of the soft links is oracle:dba. The problem is after reboot the ownership is changed to root:root. How can I permanently change the ownership to oracle:dba?
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi ,
When installing oracle software a set of directories are created under
the home directories.
Since the home directory is usually not big , i would like to create a soft link
from the home directory to mount point with alot of free space , that way the logs will not be wriiten under the... (1 Reply)
hi
i have create a soft link using below command.
ln -s <filename> <dirmane>where file name i use is t1 and dir name was t2.
i deleted the dir t2 using command rm -rf to remove the soft link .
however again i create a file a using the name t2 and when i just try to link t1 to t2 ... (1 Reply)
I did restore from netbackup for root file system on separate slice instead of corrupted one. After restoration I found there are number of soft link issues lie
e.g
libabcxyx > /mnt/usr/lib
it should be
libabcxyz > /usr/lib
does any have solution to change symbolic link changed in... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I tried creating a soft link with the file itself. It got created successfully.
bash-3.2$ ls -l a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ebrigup other 1 Oct 5 19:14 a -> a
bash-3.2$
Can anyone explain what is the possible use of it. I dont see any except practically wasting an inode... (2 Replies)
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dbx_escape_string
DBX_ESCAPE_STRING(3) 1 DBX_ESCAPE_STRING(3)dbx_escape_string - Escape a string so it can safely be used in an sql-statementSYNOPSIS
string dbx_escape_string (object $link_identifier, string $text)
DESCRIPTION
Escape the given string so that it can safely be used in an sql-statement.
PARAMETERS
o $link_identifier
- The DBX link object returned by dbx_connect(3)
o $text
- The string to escape.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the text, escaped where necessary (such as quotes, backslashes etc). On error, NULL is returned.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
dbx_escape_string(3) example
<?php
$link = dbx_connect(DBX_MYSQL, "localhost", "db", "username", "password")
or die("Could not connect");
$text = dbx_escape_string($link, "It's quoted and backslashed (\).");
$result = dbx_query($link, "insert into tbl (txt) values ('" . $text . "')");
if ($result == 0) {
echo dbx_error($link);
}
dbx_close($link);
?>
SEE ALSO dbx_query(3).
PHP Documentation Group DBX_ESCAPE_STRING(3)