SymHarden(1)

📦 version 1.6~3, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💅 SymHarden(1) — the group chat edition 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the SymHarden(1) page — lowercase symharden, capital energy ✨. This is a user command and it does exactly one little glow-up: it turns a symlink into a hardlink. Let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

symharden — convert a symbolic link into a hardlink 💫

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

symharden [SYMBOLICLINK]

that's it. one optional argument. she's lowkey minimal 🤍

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the vibe: the given symbolic link gets replaced by a hard link to that very file, the one the previous link pointed to 🫶. like, the symlink was just a little forwarding address, and now we're making it real.

if it's unresolvable, symharden will fail 💀. no cap, it's not gonna sit there and pretend everything's fine.

and if you don't give it a symbolic link at all? you get another error. different error, still an error, still not great 😭.

⚠️ real talk bestie: do not link files that have no contents, i.e. where the file size is zero. that's the rule. it avoids large link clusters 🚫. not a suggestion, it's literally in the manual.

🧚 OPERATING SYSTEMS 🧚

symharden is developed in POSIX compliant C under Linux/AMD, and tested with Linux/Intel, RaspberryPi/armhl, Cygwin/WindowsXP, AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5.3 🌈. that's a whole tour, honestly.

please, please always try to use the newest release from http://freedup.org/ 🌐 and keep the author informed of severe bugs, since he uses the program frequently himself 👀 — king behavior, he's dogfooding fr fr.

🎀 REPORTING BUGS 🎀

Report bugs to <AN@freedup.org>. 💌

Copyright © 2007 Andreas Neuper

FreeDup is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

FreeDup is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with FreeDup. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The best documentation for freedup is maintained within the source code. 📖 (iykyk — the source is the docs, periodt)

💀 one last vibe check before you go: unresolved link → fail, no argument → error, zero-byte file → don't even think about it. slay responsibly ✨

and that's the whole page bestie 🫶 — with love from freedup (fsutils), dated September 2008 💖🎀⭐

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