[Techtalk] How to view links to an inode?

[Julie]

Liz Young wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> "ls -idl /etc/X11"  shows:
>   5675 drwxr-xr-x   31 root     root   1184 Aug 27 09:33 /etc/X11
> so, there are 31 links to inode 5765.
> 
> How can I view what links to inode 5765?  I figured that it is the 
> subdirectories under /etc/X11, including parent and current, but how to 
> view just those?
> 
> If there is an ls command, I'll be darned! ;-)

Do this --

find / -xdev -inum 5765 -print

The entries you =won't= see are the ".." entries of all the
subdirectories in /etc/X11. This is mine --

#server-> ls -ldi /etc/X11 /etc/X11/xsm/..
  374625 drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root         4096 Jun 15 20:22 /etc/X11
  374625 drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root         4096 Jun 15 20:22 
/etc/X11/xsm/..

So if you have 29 subdirectories you'll have 29 ".." entries
which are linked to /etc/X11.  If you had /etc/X11 itself, plus
/etc/X11/. that makes 31.
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