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Issue 18 -- July 2009
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I wrote:
> His problem is that he's moving relative symlinks (or their
> referents) around such that the symlinks no longer point at the
> right thing and he wants something that detects that and recreates
> those symlinks such that they still point at the right things when
> the dust has settled
>> Does anyone know of a tool that can automatically update symbolic
>> links when moving files around on a filesystem, so as to maintain
>> symlink consistency?
>
>rsync has options to deal with symbolic links (and hard links) however
>you'd like it to
I think the complication he's dealing with
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:21 PM, wrote:
> Does anyone know of a tool that can automatically update symbolic
> links when moving files around on a filesystem, so as to maintain
> symlink consistency?
>
rsync has options to deal with symbolic links (and hard links) however
you'd like it to
--
Greg
Does anyone know of a tool that can automatically update symbolic
links when moving files around on a filesystem, so as to maintain
symlink consistency?
For example:
/off/the/cuff/example/cake # regular file
/off/the/cuff/example/coffee -> ../../../handle/drink
/off/the/handle/drink # regular fil
