On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Paul Howarth wrote: > D. D. Brierton wrote: > > I know that you can use find like so: > > > > find -type l > > > > to find symbolic links, but does anyone know how one finds hard links? > > Try: > > $ find /some/directory -links +1 -type f -ls > > The files with the same numbers in the left hand column are hard > linked to each other. as another tidbit of info, you can see the i-number of a file with: $ ls -i <filename> then use find to find *all* hardlinks to the same file with: $ find <dir> -inum <inumber> just make sure you do it within the same filesystem. but again, this isn't exactly what the OP was asking. the original question is still, in a sense, kind of meaningless. rday
