Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site noscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!noscvax!martin From: martin@noscvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Symbolic links question Message-ID: <521@noscvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 12:07:42 EDT Article-I.D.: noscvax.521 Posted: Wed Jun 13 12:07:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 00:19:12 EDT Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center Lines: 13 Given the command 'ln -s foo foo.sl', which creates a symbolic link to an arbitrary file foo, Is there any documentation on which commands operate on foo, and which operate on foo.sl? Commands such as ls, mv, and rm operate on foo.sl, whereas commands like cat, cp, and grep, given foo.sl as an argument, operate on foo. That is, 'mv foo.sl foo2' results in foo2 having the type 'symbolic link', whereas 'cp foo.sl foo2' makes foo2 a duplicate of foo. How can I determine, other than trial-and-error which commands use foo.sl and which use foo? Doug Martin martin@nosc