Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:48:53 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir Message-ID: <87bp86r93u.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimR9QehTjUrm%2B0CqRVAx=QHkgcfpygrJJfkhbmp@mail.gmail.com> (Aryeh Friedman's message of "Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:24:50 -0400") References: <AANLkTimR9QehTjUrm%2B0CqRVAx=QHkgcfpygrJJfkhbmp@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:24:50 -0400, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> 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
If you don't mind creating the local directories in one run, and then
symlinking everything else, you can use something like:
cd bar
( cd ~foo ; find . -type d ) | xargs mkdir -p
( cd ~foo ; find . \! -type d ) | while read fname ; do
ln -s ~foo/"$fname" "$fname"
done
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