Hey, no prob. Hadn't thought of the issue with TextEdit since I use vi for everything. :)<br><br>Been burned by some custom scripts at othe jobs where hard links were used and mv/cp and checkin/checkout tools were used. :/
<br><br>Wing<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jerry Krinock</b> <<a href="mailto:jerry@ieee.org">jerry@ieee.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
on 06/04/07 10:29, Wing Wong at <a href="mailto:wingedpower@gmail.com">wingedpower@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br><br>> Can you provide an ls of the directory? ls -ali<br>> This should list the inodes for each file, as well as other pertinent data.
<br><br>Wing Wong,<br><br>I went through your experiment and I see that indeed it works as expected.<br>I repeated your experiment, and it works for me too.<br><br>The reason my experiment does not work is because instead of using the
<br>redirection operator ">" to change the file, I am using TextEdit. After I<br>change and then save the file with TextEdit, it has a different inode than<br>its linked twin.<br><br>Why would it do that?<br>
<br>Thanks for the tip on "-i" option; that makes this a lot easier to<br>troubleshoot.<br><br>Jerry<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Wing Wong<br><a href="mailto:wingedpower@gmail.com">
wingedpower@gmail.com</a>