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From: Utkarsh Singh <utkarsh190601@gmail.com>
To: Sergiu Ivanov <sivanov@colimite.fr>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing file outside package in /etc
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 16:32:04 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmyebrrc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1izvj17.fsf@colimite.fr> (Sergiu Ivanov's message of "Sat, 24 Apr 2021 16:44:52 +0200")

Hi,

On 2021-04-24, 16:44 +0200, Sergiu Ivanov <sivanov@colimite.fr> wrote:

> Note however that /etc/hostname appearing to be a normal file may be
> misleading, since it may also be a hardlink to a file in the store.
> It is beyond my knowledge/motivation to figure out whether it really is
> or not :-)

You can make use of GNU Find utility to find more than one file that
refer to the same file on a file system, i.e., to the same inode.  For
example to search for same file as /etc/hostname in /etc directory you
can use:

$ find /etc -samefile /etc/hostname

You can read more here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html#Hard-Links

-- 
Utkarsh Singh
http://utkarshsingh.xyz


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-28 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-24  9:30 Installing file outside package in /etc phodina via
2021-04-24 14:44 ` Sergiu Ivanov
2021-04-28 11:02   ` Utkarsh Singh [this message]
2021-04-28 11:05     ` Sergiu Ivanov

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