Find duplicate, hard linked files ?

Hi,

pillmill:

I think you have a posted similar question about finding files of same inode, and I am repeating the solution with a different find command.

The command ls -i will show the inode of a file. Also the find command with the -inum option will find files b inode number.

So if you know the inode number of a file you can use

find /dir -type f -inum number -name filename -mount

The number is the inode number of the file

the -mount option is to restrict search to the same filesystem since files on different filesystem can have the same inode number (hence are different files)

- type f is to list files only (directories will not have the same inode number)

if You look for files that just have more than one link (it have another name), issue

find /dir -mount -type f -links +1 -printf "%i %p" | sort -n
the output is sorted by inode number
inode_number name

find -links +1   seems to identify files with symbolic links.
I want to find all the files and all the Inodes for which the files
have hard links. This means that the Inodes are the same,
but the directory location is different. How do I get this
list from scanning all the files in the directory structure ?

Hi,

pillmill:

did you try the solution I gave?

> find -links +1   seems to identify files with symbolic links.
Untrue - just verified.
Mine does exaxtly what You want. just give some mountpoint as a /dir.