On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:14:44PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:02:02 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > So the effect of ln is the same as cp, except that no copy is made. > > Not really. If you make a link (soft or hard) you get one file/dir with > two names and/or locations. Any changes made through the link will be in > fact done to the file/dir itself. If you change one copy of a file/dir > the other copy will not change and the space occupied is (almost) > double.
Exactly -- no copy is made. I made the analogy to provide a mnemonic for those with difficulty remembering which of ln's arguments is which. (I think this analogy was the motivation for the design of ln in the first place; I'll not claim credit for the analogy) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
