Files and finding
8 minA name is not a file
Hard links, and what rm actually removes.
A file is an inode: some bytes, a mode, an owner, a link count. A name is an entry in a directory that points at one. They are different things, and a file can have more than one name.
ln makes a second name. ls -li shows the inode number both names share, and the link count going to 2.
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Watch the LINKS column in the files pane. It is 2 for both names, because there is only one file.
rm removes a name, not a file. The inode survives as long as any name still points at it, which is why removing one of two links loses nothing.
A symbolic link is a different thing entirely: a small file whose contents are a path. It can point at something that does not exist, and it breaks when the target moves.
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Files
| Mode | Links | Size | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| -rw-r--r-- | 1 | 65 | budget.txt |
| -rw-r--r-- | 1 | 100 | draft.txt |
| -rw-r--r-- | 1 | 134 | receipt.md |