On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:24:50 -0400, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.fried...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and
> only if it is a regular file (not a dir) in dir1... the reason is if
> the file is unchanged then use symlink but I can rm the symlink and
> replace it with a non-symlink:
>
> To show the problem I am attempting to solve:
>
> foo: (owned by fred)
> arf:
> ack
>
> in barney's account:
>
> ln -s ~foo/ foo
> rm foo/arf/ack # Permissioin denied ... it should nuke the symlink
> and let me then do something like "touch foo/arf/ack
If you don't mind creating the local directories in one run, and then
symlinking everything else, you can use something like:
cd bar
( cd ~foo ; find . -type d ) | xargs mkdir -p
( cd ~foo ; find . \! -type d ) | while read fname ; do
ln -s ~foo/"$fname" "$fname"
done
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