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How can I see, if an entry in a drectory is a real file or a link?
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RodKnowlton
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- Apr 26, 2000
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For something a little easier to parse in a shell script, you can use the [tt]file[/tt] command, like so:
Note that both mrn and my answers relate only to symbolic links. Hard links are a little trickier, but you're probably not looking for those because they are, for all intents and purposes, actual files.
- Rod
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Code:
$ file /sbin/telinit
/sbin/telinit: symbolic link to `init'
$Note that both mrn and my answers relate only to symbolic links. Hard links are a little trickier, but you're probably not looking for those because they are, for all intents and purposes, actual files.
- Rod
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