On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Anselm Lingnau
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been wondering about this. Could you enlighten me as to exactly
> what aspect(s) of the “ls” command this alludes to?
>
> In our training materials we do cover the behaviour of “ls” with respect
> to hard links – i.e., the link count and “ls -i” – and symbolic links
> (“ls -l”). Is there anything else?
That's pretty much it.
You could mention the difference with 'ls -d' on symlinked directories
but I've never seen it mentioned on an exam.
Eg:
ln -s /etc /tmp/etc
ls -ld /tmp/etc/
ls -l /tmp/etc/
Regards,
--matt
> In the most recent version I also added an explanation of the relevant
> options of “cp” and friends that deal with hard and symbolic links, even
> though these are not officially on the exam – they are of interest in
> actual practice.
>
> Anselm
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