Just to stay on topic. mkdir accepts a pathname, and a mode. my mode is always 511. any idea what 511 means? Eugene <quote sender="John Levon"> > On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 11:11:47AM -0700, Allen Curtis wrote: > > > 1. Is there an easy way to determine if a file is actually a hard link? > > http://perl.plover.com/Questions.html > > :) > > > (or locate files with multiple references?) > > st_nlink > 1 > > (try stat on such a file : > > [moz@lambent oprofile]$ stat b | grep Links > Device: 303h/771d Inode: 230397 Links: 2 > > ) > > > find . -links 2 > > or > > find . -type f -links 2 > > gives inodes with exactly two links > > regards > john > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- Eugene TEO @ Linux Users Group, Singapore <eugeneteo@lugs.org.sg> GPG FP: D851 4574 E357 469C D308 A01E 7321 A38A 14A0 DDE5 main(i){putchar(182623909>>(i-1)*5&31|!!(i<7)<<6)&&main(++i);} -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/