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

[Steve Dyer]

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.  I know
that they're not very big.
>-rwxr-xr-x  3 root        36864 May  2  1989 /bin/e
>-rwxr-xr-x  3 root        36864 May  2  1989 /bin/ed
>-rwxr-xr-x  3 root        36864 May  2  1989 /bin/red
>But, they are on the root (small) file system.  This seems bad.

They're all links to the same file, of course.  No more space (other
than the extra directory entries) than a single file.

One of these days you'll smile when you recall asking this question.
Until then, don't sweat it.

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Steve Dyer
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