Re: soft links vs hard links (was Re: duplicate binaries)

1999-02-08 Thread John Hasler
dan writes: > Shouldn't files like egrep and fgrep be symbolic links to grep, and same > for any other program like this? I wrote: > What's wrong with hard links for this? > If you have hard links, and replace one of them, you still need to > replace the other one, since it still points to the or

soft links vs hard links (was Re: duplicate binaries)

1999-02-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > dan writes: > > Shouldn't files like egrep and fgrep be symbolic links to grep, and same > > for any other program like this? > > What's wrong with hard links for this? If you have hard links, and replace one of them, you still need to replace the other one, since it still points to the orig