On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Todd Vierling wrote:

# On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:
# 
# Doing that for hard-links from a binary set is more difficult than renaming
# the targets and names of symlinks.  Symlinks need only a little awk magic
# whereas matching up hard links is much more difficult.

Neh.  The magic's just a little different.

Better to take the time and cast the right spell intent on permanence
than to pretend it's temporary and use spit and baling wire.  It's a
matter of keeping track of inodes, basically:

	first-file=${files[0]}
	shift files;
	gzip -c ${first-file} > ${first-file}.gz;
	for file in ${files[*]}; do {
	    ln ${first-file}.gz ${file}.gz;
	    rm ${file};
	}
	done

Getting ahold of the inode numbers is left as an exercise for the reader.

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