On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:28:59PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > 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.
lndir is in ports: > pkgsearch lndir /usr/ports/devel/lndir I'm not so sure about a "breakln" being anywhere accessible, other than whatever tools you have handy. > > 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. I'd like to see what you have, even if the OP doesn't need them. Are they of your own making, or copied from somewhere? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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