Hi Martin,
Le 13/02/2014 18:59, martin f krafft a écrit :
I am a user, not a developer, but I have a question I couldn't get
answered elsewhere.
Do you have, some command line skill, though?
We are looking for a tool to assist us in a reorganising of a very
large file base. In Thunar, we believe to have found a very good
tool for the task.
What do you mean by very large?
How many GB, TB or millions of file/folder?
But what we would really like to do is create hardlinks instead of
moving! Ideally by default, i.e. when we drag with the left mouse
button.
Can you imagine an easy way how we could configure/change Thunar to
create hardlinks by default when files are dragged to a destination
on the same filesystem?
If you have some bash programming skill, you can code a small shell
script which can handle a custom action.
For example, if by "In Thunar, we believe to have found a very good tool
for the task" you mean: we can visually select files we want…
* Select multiple folders or files
* right click
* chose your custom script
* the selected files list will be passed to your script
of course, you may eventually miss a destination folder…
You could setup, 2 custom scripts… one doing the "copy" storing the file
list in a temporary file.
The other script performing the hardlinking…
Would it match the behavior you needed?
or another hint, code a totally different script which will convert
symlink to hardlink…
you will run it in batch mode after making all the "drag and drop" job.
Regards,
Sylvain.
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Sylvain Viart - Consultant Informatique Système et performance - gestion de
projet
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