At 1:24 PM -0400 9/9/10, Aryeh Friedman 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 Note there are over 500 files upto 5 dirs deep in the dir I want to symlink from.... the final application is our version control system (devel/aegis) keeps seperate repos for different source code projects (for obvious reasons) and we want to make it so in normal operation we can symlink tne source tree from one project into an other but if we want to make a local modificiation to the "foreign" source tree all we have do is (sorry for the aegis commands but I think the idea is clear):
I believe early X11-distributions had a script called "lndir" would pretty much do exactly what you want here. And then there was a companion command called "breakln" which would remove the symlink and make a copy of the original file to replace it. I don't know if X11 still has these commands (I haven't installed X11 in at least 10 years), but I have my own versions of them. Let me know if you can't find them, and I'll send you copies of my scripts. (actually, I'm not 100% sure I got these from X11. But I got them from somewhere in the mid-1990's) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = dros...@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or g...@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
