@memoriesin8bit @vwbusguy One practical difference: You can remove your original file, but the hard link still keeps your file. Your symbolic link will just be dangling. This is why e.g. you cannot make hard links across filesystem boundaries.

@chris thx now I know again why I hate Unix shells as scripting language. It's a mess... ^^

But anyways, why do you assign to remotehash twice? Looks wrong, doesn't it?