From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 10:54:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26410 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:54:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nexus.astro.psu.edu (nexus.astro.psu.edu [128.118.147.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA26396 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:54:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@astro.psu.edu) Received: from mstar.astro.psu.edu by nexus.astro.psu.edu (4.1/Nexus-1.3) id AA28837; Wed, 5 Aug 98 13:54:41 EDT Received: by mstar.astro.psu.edu (SMI-8.6/Client-1.3) id NAA19033; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:54:35 -0400 Message-Id: <19980805135435.A18936@astro.psu.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:54:35 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: Roman Katsnelson , Gary Landers , "q's" Subject: Re: Simple UNIX question References: <35C8871D.392D5FF6@tein.net> <35C8916C.B87B5809@graphnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <35C8916C.B87B5809@graphnet.com>; from Roman Katsnelson on Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 01:07:56PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 01:07:56PM -0400, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > the command is ln (for link) -- you can create a hard link or a symbolic > link. a hard link will physically copy the file to be linked to to the > other location. a symbolic link will create a different file which will > only point to the original file. A hard link does not copy the file. It creates a new directory entry that refers to the same copy of the file on the disk; if you modify the file using one name, you still see the same changes if you read using the other name. -- Matthew Hunt * Inertia is a property of matter. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message