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Re: hard link questions

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 11:11:47AM -0700, Allen Curtis wrote:

> 1. Is there an easy way to determine if a file is actually a hard link?

http://perl.plover.com/Questions.html

:)

> (or locate files with multiple references?)

st_nlink > 1

(try stat on such a file :

[moz@lambent oprofile]$ stat b | grep Links
Device: 303h/771d       Inode: 230397      Links: 2

)


find . -links 2

or

find . -type f -links 2

gives inodes with exactly two links

regards
john
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