finding the missing links

Michael R. Johnston mikej at lilink.UUCP
Thu Jun 1 22:00:09 AEST 1989


In article <207 at flattop.UUCP> rcm at flattop.UUCP (Ron McDowell) writes:
>
>$ echo "hello world" > $HOME/xxx ; ln xxx /tmp/yyy ; ln xxx /usr/tmp/zzz
>
>I do a 'ls -l /tmp' and see that yyy has 3 links.  How can I find the other
>two files?

The simplest way I know of is to say:
       ls -i xxx        [command returns inode #]
       ncheck -i inode_number

This will return the paths to all the files that share the same inode #.
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