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  3. February 2010

RE: IFS links

By "soft" links, I assume you mean symbolic links.

Yes, Scott. Both "soft link" (as I used) and "symlink" (as you used) are
recognized synonyms for symbolic links. When differentiating between the
hard and the other, "hard" and "soft" make a clearer statement, IMO.

Since symlinks can cross file systems, if you decide to use 'find' to
search for all symlinks, make sure you account for the possibility that
they might cross file systems, and search everything.

(Which can take an extremely long time, in my experience)

Absolutely agreed! On any platform!

Dennis Lovelady
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