On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:33:45 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the tip! I use ln very seldom and always have to man for the right arguments (this is why I sometimes use mc instead). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
