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Tutorial8: Links / Process Management

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INVESTIGATION 1: LINKING FILES
# Issue the following Linux command to create the following '''symbolic''' link in the same directory: <br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ln -s ~/links2/text-file.txt ~/links2/text-file.sym.lnk</span><br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command to display i-node numbers for <u>both</u> files:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ls -li ~/links2/text-file.txt ~/links2/text-file.sym.lnk</span><br><br>What do you notice about both of these file's i-node numbers?<br>What do you notice about the size of the file ''~/links2/text-file.sym.lnk''?<br>What pathname do you think it represents?<br><br>
# Change to your '''home''' directory.<br><br># Issue the following Linux command to create the following symbolic link in your '''home ''' directory: <br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ln -s ~/links2/text-file.txt ~/text-file.sym.lnk</span><br><br># Issue the '''following Linux command to display i-node numbers for all of those files:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ls -l''' command for the '''li ~/links2/text-file.txt~/links2/text-file.sym.lnk''' ~/links2/text-file.txt</span><br><br>What do you notice? What is the file sizeof <span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">~/links2/text-file.txt?</span><br>What pathname do you think this file contains?<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">cat ~/text-file.txt.sym.lnk</span><br><br>What did you notice?<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command to check that you created those symbolic links: <br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">bash /home/murray.saul/scripts/week8-check-2</span><br><br>If you encounter errors, then view the feedback to make corrections, and then re-run the checking script.<br>If you receive a congratulation message that there are no errors, then proceed with this tutorial.<br><br>
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