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To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
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Subject: Re: Understaning the files in /stand (a little long, sorry)
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Date: 10 Dec 2001 09:21:11 -0800
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Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> writes:

> I guess I could leave one file in
> /stand around and hard link the others to it manually. If this works, is it
> of any importance which file I keep around? Or can I simply delete
> everything but one random file in /stand and then re-link the others to the
> one remaining file?

No. Yes.

Something like this?

for file in *; do
    if diff sysinstall $file; then
        ln sysinstall $file
    fi
done

ls -ild *

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