/bin/e, /bin/ed, /bin/red

Barry Margolin barmar at think.com
Wed Jan 3 12:40:15 AEST 1990


In article <SAUS.90Jan2175225 at media-lab.media.mit.edu> saus at media-lab.media.mit.edu (Mark Sausville) writes:
>/bin/e, /bin/ed and /bin/red are all the same.

They're not only identical, but they are actually the SAME file.  They are
all hard links to the same file.  Use "ls -li" and you'll see that they
have the same i-node number.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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