Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:13:16 -0500 From: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir Message-ID: <4C8923BC.4080209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimR9QehTjUrm%2B0CqRVAx=QHkgcfpygrJJfkhbmp@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimR9QehTjUrm%2B0CqRVAx=QHkgcfpygrJJfkhbmp@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/9/2010 12:24 PM, 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
This should give you at least a good start:
find foo/ \( -type d -exec mkdir -p copy/'{}' \; \) -o \( -type f -exec
ln -s '{}' copy/'{}' \; \)
That'll copy directory foo into copy/foo and the rest is fine. You'll
have to tweak the rest as you need but it'll get you started.
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