On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 08:39:02PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> begin Eric G. Miller quotation:
> >
> > And, in the context of using "ln", your point is?
>
> That question is unanswerable, because it contains a faulty assumption.
And the faulty assumption is? The OP was asking about linking t
begin Eric G. Miller quotation:
>
> And, in the context of using "ln", your point is?
That question is unanswerable, because it contains a faulty assumption.
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On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:42:06AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> begin Eric G. Miller quotation:
> >
> > Some might argue that hard links are a bad thing and should be
> > avoided.
>
> Others might point out that there is at least one hard link to EVERY
> file that appears in a directory listing
begin Eric G. Miller quotation:
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> Some might argue that hard links are a bad thing and should be
> avoided.
Others might point out that there is at least one hard link to EVERY
file that appears in a directory listing.
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On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 07:32:15PM -0700, faisal gillani wrote:
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> what is the diffrence between a symbolic & a hard link ?
A symbolic link is basically a pointer to the real file. If you
remove the real file, the symbolic link is broken. A hard link
is essentially the same as a "real" file
faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> what is the diffrence between a symbolic & a hard link ?
A symbolic link is a directory entry that points to the name of
another file. For example:
dmaze% echo hello > foo
dmaze% ln -s foo bar
dmaze% ls -l bar
lrwxrwxrwx1 dmazedmaze
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 07:32:15PM -0700, faisal gillani wrote:
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| what is the diffrence between a symbolic & a hard link ?
One (symlink) is a pointer to the filename. It can point to
directories and can cross filesystem boundaries.
The other (hard link) is a second name that refers to the s
what is the diffrence between a symbolic & a hard link ?
thanks for the reply
Dayalan Manohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi,try man ln to read the help.the command isln -s /other/directory /home/faisal/linknameln -s is to create a symbolic link.without s option hard link is created.hth,day
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