Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:54:35 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>, Gary Landers <gary@tein.net>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Simple UNIX question Message-ID: <19980805135435.A18936@astro.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <35C8916C.B87B5809@graphnet.com>; from Roman Katsnelson on Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 01:07:56PM -0400 References: <35C8871D.392D5FF6@tein.net> <35C8916C.B87B5809@graphnet.com>
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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 <mph@pobox.com> * 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
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