> >> Why do I have two distinct copies of perl? > > > >i found this too and diffed it - no difference at all, so > >i don't bother very much. > > > > They are the same file, they are just hard-linked to each other. If > you do ls-l on either of them, you'll see that one of the columns, > which is normally 1, will be 2 or more, meaning that 2 or more > filenames are hardlinked to the same file...
They should be hard linked, but as the original poster pointed out, they aren't: [EMAIL PROTECTED](p2):bhmit1$ ls -li /usr/bin/perl* 4267 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 492172 Jan 25 22:14 /usr/bin/perl 4167 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 492172 Jan 25 22:14 /usr/bin/perl5.00404 4554 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28612 Jan 25 22:14 /usr/bin/perlbug 4555 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12675 Jan 25 22:14 /usr/bin/perldoc [EMAIL PROTECTED](p2):bhmit1$ diff /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl5.00404 [EMAIL PROTECTED](p2):bhmit1$ dpkg -l perl Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii perl 5.004.04-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Sorry for the long lines, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
