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LoTeK
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 Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 4:36 pm Post subject: Obama talks about the difference between "link" an |
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what is the differences between:
and ?
AFAIK link works only with files and creates hard links, but with ln you can do this too, so why is link still around?
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rtomek
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| speed? link only does one thing and does it well, rather than doing everything. |
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BonezTheGoon
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Same reason so many old things are still around, because they are so small it isn't "bad" to have them, and there *might* be some script or something that depends on it. Also in many cases the new functionality in the replacement simply calls the old process directly anyway.
If you know about both, why worry about it? Do you really have nothing else to worry or complain about?
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LoTeK
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| Quote: | | speed? link only does one thing and does it well, rather than doing everything. |
Although I like this attitude I would stick with ln since link doesn't do it better than ln (AFAIK)
| Quote: | | Same reason so many old things are still around, because they are so small it isn't "bad" to have them, and there *might* be some script or something that depends on it. Also in many cases the new functionality in the replacement simply calls the old process directly anyway. |
ok, I see...
| Quote: | | If you know about both, why worry about it? Do you really have nothing else to worry or complain about? |
Because I'm a purist  and I want to be able to know the whole system, so every redundancy most be avoided... however I have many things to worry and complain about..
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BoneKracker
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Trivia: The GNU coreutils package was created in 2003 by a merger of three packages (GNU fileutils, GNU shellutils, and GNU textutils). The 'ln' utility was part of fileutils, and the 'link' command was part of shellutils.
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Don't worry, as necessary, they'll have a photo of Obama using either link or ln, depending on what they need the press to disperse.
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LoTeK
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| Quote: | | Trivia: The GNU coreutils package was created in 2003 by a merger of three packages (GNU fileutils, GNU shellutils, and GNU textutils). The 'ln' utility was part of fileutils, and the 'link' command was part of shellutils. |
As usual thanks for the information [not iconic this time ]
| Quote: | | Don't worry, as necessary, they'll have a photo of Obama using either link or ln, depending on what they need the press to disperse. |
At least someone leaves a comment on my sneaky little trick to get more readers.. Moreover with a well dosed sarcastic criticism of one of the human weaknesses to see / use what suits their needs and not what is right...
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I had to, since it was the only part of the post I could comment on  (Seriously though, I don't think I knew of link's existence).
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erm67
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more trivia:
| Quote: | The ln utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
The simplified link command conforms to Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification (``SUSv2''). |
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