Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:12:27 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com>, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop?) Message-ID: <20020808004227.GY64642@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020807202345.H33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020807072509.GA31679@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20020807202345.H33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Wednesday, 7 August 2002 at 20:27:11 -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> Ah, but on FreeBSD, less is more, more or less:
>> happy-idiot-talk:~:% ls -lai /usr/bin/{more,less}
>> 8199 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 85844 Aug 3 17:16 /usr/bin/less*
>> 8199 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 85844 Aug 3 17:16 /usr/bin/more*
>
> GNU. "Gnu's Not Unix." :) Ask a silly answer, guess a silly question.
>
> Sunuvva gun, that's cool - I wonder why they waste 85k of space
They don't. You've overseen the first and third columns of that list.
> instead of just having a symlink ;-)
Because symlinks are wasteful and introduce problems. There are very
few reasons to ever symlink files in the same file system.
Greg
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