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instance method

File::Stat#nlink

stat.nlink → integer

Returns the number of hard links to stat.

Example
File.stat("testfile").nlink             #=> 1
File.link("testfile", "testfile.bak")   #=> 0
File.stat("testfile").nlink             #=> 2
See also #mtime #owned? #mode #pipe? also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1