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I have a directory old and a directory new. The files in these directories are "hard" linked. When I get newer files...The new files are moved to the old directory and the files in the new directory are replaced with the newer files. However, I need to handle the hard links. The links point at the same physical memory. So shifting with the files from new to old and replacing the newer files with the new files in the new directory will mess up the "hard" links. Anyone of you have an idea about how to handle this problem and to be sure that the links points to the files they have to point at??? Thanks in advance..And I really hope someone can help me out! Tony

Name: Luke Chi
Date: April 17, 2005 at 15:16:33 Pacific

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Use cp instead of mv. Example: cp new_file old_file cp newest_file new_file Luke Chi

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