From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 1:46:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA45037B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 01:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978F743E4A for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 01:46:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk ([IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g788kLFo079698; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:46:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g788kFpU079697; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:46:15 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:46:15 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Peter Leftwich Cc: Matthew Seaman , Jeff Jirsa , John Bleichert , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? Message-ID: <20020808084615.GA79646@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20020807072509.GA31679@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20020807202345.H33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020807202345.H33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message