Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:46:15 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com>, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? Message-ID: <20020808084615.GA79646@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020807202345.H33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020807072509.GA31679@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20020807202345.H33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:27:11PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > Ah, but on FreeBSD, less is more, more or less:
> > happy-idiot-talk:~:% ls -lai /usr/bin/{more,less}
> > 8199 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 85844 Aug 3 17:16 /usr/bin/less*
> > 8199 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 85844 Aug 3 17:16 /usr/bin/more*
>
> GNU. "Gnu's Not Unix." :) Ask a silly answer, guess a silly question.
>
> Sunuvva gun, that's cool - I wonder why they waste 85k of space instead of
> just having a symlink ;-) not that a user can't do that themselves...
There's no waste of space --- see that first number: 8199 --- that's
the inode of the file, which is shown by the -i option to ls. Both
commands are just different names for the same file, aka the files are
hard linked together.
Matthew
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