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List:       sun-managers
Subject:    SUMMARY:   hard links
From:       "Leonard, Roger" <Roger.Leonard () marconi ! com>
Date:       2001-01-31 18:15:18
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As most of you pointed out....

> is there anyway to tell who is hard linked to a file? the second column in
> an ls -al shows a 4 and i read the manpage to mean that there are 4 links
to
> a file.  doing an ls -ali would show duplicate inodes but what if the link
> is coming from another directory?  any help would be appreciated.

Summary:

find the inode number associated with the file (ls -li), then
find the mount point of the disk (df .), then run

find /mount-point -xdev -inum NNNNN -ls

thanks
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