JUST STARTED WORK – NOT FINISHED
- Alias: A Macintosh form, macOS, in Finder (GUI)
- Links: soft links, hard links: UNIX origin, also works on macOS, in terminal (CLI)
- Shortcuts: ###
- WRbJ, WindowReopen by J:
| ### | Alias | Soft link | Hard link | Shortcut | WRbJ |
| Works in Finder (GUI) | √ | √ | |||
| – Open/Double-click “file” | Open item in SAME window | Opens item in NEW window | |||
| – Dropbox… | ### | No. | |||
| Works in Terminal (CLI) | ### | No. I.e., cannot use in pipes, to open destination references to. (Need to use WRbJ app to open.) | |||
| Size of file system “file” | Apparently can vary a lot, from a few hundred Bytes, to KBs, and even MBs! Have quite a few alias files indicating size (in Finder) of 5.8 MB. | Commonly 10s to 100+ bytes. | 0 bytes (zero)! But shows size of original, source, file. | ### | Roughly size equals number of chars in file system path. (WRbJ v1.x gen). Commonly 20-a few hundred bytes depending on how deep into hierarchy and lengths of directories and filename. |
| Comparing | Commonly way larger than anything else. (Think 10 times Softlink, similarly compared to WRbJ) | n/a | n/a | Way smaller than Aliases |