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A script I am working on needs to process files returned from the find command. However, many of those files are hard links to other files, and should be excluded from our processing. How do we identify those files that are actually hard links, so we can exclude them. NOTE: We know how to exlude symbolic links, so please answer only if you know how to identify HARD links.
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