Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment, Third Edition

Appendix C. Solutions to Selected Exercises

Chapter 1

1.1 For this exercise, we use the following two arguments for the ls(1) command: -i prints the i-node number of the file or directory (we say more about i-nodes in Section 4.14), and -d prints information about a directory instead of information on all the files in the directory.

Execute the following:

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$ ls -ldi /etc/. /etc/..           -i says print i-node number 162561 drwxr-xr-x  66 root    4096 Feb  5 03:59 /etc/./      2 drwxr-xr-x  19 root    4096 Jan 15 07:25 /etc/../$ ls -ldi /. /..                   both . and .. have i-node number 2      2 drwxr-xr-x  19 root    4096 Jan 15 07:25 /./      2 drwxr-xr-x  19 root    4096 Jan 15 07:25 /../

1.2 The UNIX ...