Links in Linux are like shortcuts: references to a file that don't duplicate it. A symbolic link references by filename but breaks if its target moves. A hard link references by a file's inode ...

Symbolic and hard links provide a way to avoid duplicating data on Unix/Linux systems, but the uses and restrictions vary depending on which kind of link you choose to use. Let’s look at how links can ...

The inode number, shown in the third line of the output, is 12731681. There are no additional hard links (Links: 1). And the file is a regular file.

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...

My usual strategy for dealing with oddly named files is to list the file’s inode number. After that, I can use the inode number in a file command to remove the file or give it a more well ...