Name

       declone — break hardlinks

Syntax

       declone file...

Description

       Breaks a hard link as created by ln(1) or hardlink(1).  This program makes a copy of the file's contents,
       the ownership information and standard permissions. It does not copy ACLs or SELinux contexts.

Example

       $ ln GNUmakefile new1
       $ ln GNUmakefile new2
       $ ls -li GNUmakefile new1 new2
       -rw-r--r--  3 jengelh users 2687 May 27 23:11 GNUmakefile
       -rw-r--r--  3 jengelh users 2687 May 27 23:11 new1
       -rw-r--r--  3 jengelh users 2687 May 27 23:11 new2
       $ declone new2
       * new2
       $ ls -li GNUmakefile new1 new2
       -rw-r--r--  2 jengelh users 2687 May 27 23:11 GNUmakefile
       -rw-r--r--  2 jengelh users 2687 May 27 23:11 new1
       -rw-r--r--  1 jengelh users 2687 May 28 09:10 new2

See also

       hxtools(7)

hxtools                                            2008-02-06                                         declone(1)