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How to find hard links

 
Vidyasankar Narayanan
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‎02-15-2001 12:29 PM

‎02-15-2001 12:29 PM

How to find hard links

Hi All,
If I have a file and 10 hard links to the same file, how can I identify the original file?
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Jdamian
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‎02-15-2001 12:41 PM

‎02-15-2001 12:41 PM

Re: How to find hard links

Supose our file name is "hello.c"

find / -linkedto hello.c

Read manual pages of find command for more details.
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Rodney Hills
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‎02-15-2001 01:18 PM

‎02-15-2001 01:18 PM

Re: How to find hard links

A hard link is only another entry in another directory. The system does not distinguish an "original" file. They both share the same inode.

Maybe you are thinking of a symbolic link which does have an "original" file versus a seperate file pointer.
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