In article sb39c397.068@ccp2.jhuccp.org, "KEVIN ZEMBOWER" KZEMBOWER@jhuccp.org writes:
Thank you, Charlie, for explaining that. I was confused by the manual text "showlink: It will display what groups of files are linked together." I thought I could use it to tell if dist and accept are hard linked together.
You can tell this by doing "ls -i dist accept". It will display each file's "inode number" next to the filename; if the files are hard-linked to each other, then these numbers will be the same.