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Re: [LUG] Find hard links

 

Simon Williams wrote:

> I was also hoping for something which would let me specify a file
> and it would go find all the other links to that data (perhaps given
> a dir to look in).

Are you likely to want to do that more than one with the same
directory? If so, caching the inodes would be a good thing.

> Would I be right in thinking that the only way to get such a list is to 
> check every file and see where it lives? Or is there a list of pointers 
> to data somewhere?

Not that I know of.

Steve

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