[Python-Dev] PEP 394 request for pronouncement (python2 symlink in *nix systems) (original) (raw)

Charles-François Natali cf.natali at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 17:35:19 CET 2012

There actually is an easy way, in regular ls: look at the link count. It comes out of ls -l by default, and if it's >1, there will be an identical file. This doesn't tell me which file it is, which is practically useless if I have both python3.3 and python3.2 in that directory.

You can use 'ls -i' to print the inode, or you could use find's 'samefile' option. But this is definitely not as straightforward as a it would be for a symlink, and I'm also curious to know the reason behind this choice.

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