[Courses][Linux comands] tee, file, stat, find

[Laurel Fan]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:33:53PM -0500, Katie Bechtold wrote:
> What's going on there?  There are three links to the directory Mail,
> but "find" only finds one.

stat includes . (every directory contains a link to itself) and
.. (every directory contains a link to its parent directory).  So the
three links that stat finds are:

Mail
Mail/.
Mail/<some-subdirectory-of-mail>/..

ls ignores . and .. (as well as all other files or directories
starting with .) unless you give it the -a option.  find may do
something similar (or just ignore . and .. to avoid infinite
recursion).


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