From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target
Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 17:43:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leuloe7v.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pmjxoev5.fsf@dataswamp.org
> How big is a symlink?
>
> $ touch a.txt
> $ ln -s a.txt a-sy.txt
> $ du -b a-sl.txt
> 5
>
> 5 bytes. The path to a.txt
^ relative
Yes, if one places the symlink in some another dir than the
target then the size increases.
Observe
$ cd
$ mkdir -p test/sl
$ cd !:2
$ touch a
$ ln -s a b
$ cd
$ ln -s test/sl/a l
then compare
$ du -b test/sl/b
1 test/slb/
$ du -b l
9 l
Lesson: There is a lot of space to save by placing symlinks correctly!
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-28 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-18 20:55 Function to find symlink target Jean Louis
2022-05-18 23:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-22 13:52 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-22 18:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-23 9:05 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-23 20:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-24 0:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-24 1:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-24 2:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-24 2:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-24 8:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-24 8:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-25 5:54 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-27 2:25 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-27 3:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-27 8:00 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-27 14:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 6:43 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-28 15:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 15:43 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-05-28 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-28 16:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-28 17:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-31 6:27 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-31 12:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-31 6:31 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-31 12:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-01 7:43 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-02 0:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-02 5:15 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-05 5:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-25 5:05 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-25 22:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-29 2:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-19 23:14 ` Nick Dokos
2022-05-20 0:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-23 8:17 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-23 22:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-23 22:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-24 0:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
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