Re: How to use /usr/sbin/hardlink?

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:53 +0100, John Haxby wrote:
> Brian Long wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone know the proper way to use this utility to
> >consolidate and hardlink duplicate files?  It only offers a simple usage
> >statement:
> >  
> >
> I haven't tried it in anger, but  "hardlink -nv /usr/bin" suggests that 
> I can consolidate five files.  (-n, don't do it, -v verbose).  "hardlink 
> -v /usr/bin" (not as root) tells me which files by virtue of not being 
> able to do it :-)   hardlink -c would only compare contents, that is two 
> files would be considered identical if they only differ in permissions 
> and ownership and whatnot.

John,

Yup, very straight forward, but it sure would be nice in a man page like
everything else in kernel-utils (except cpuspeed, which has another BZ
filed)  :)

/Brian/

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