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Forcibly create directory hard link(s)?
I understand the reasoning why nearly every unix version doesn't allow hard-linking of directories (in fact HFS+ on OS X is the only one I know, but even that isn't made easy to do yourself). However, ...
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How do I batch-export all the content contained in symbolic links? (and then delete them all)
So as an alternative to Recursive scp without following links or creating a giant tar file? (this could be an emergency since the remote files could be deleted any time soon), I'm thinking of deleting ...
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How can I synchronize all PDFs from one directory with Dropbox?
I want to synchronize all the PDFs from one directory (my Zotero library) to Dropbox. Finally, I want to have a list of all the PDFs, not the directory names.
I successfully synchronized all my PDFs ...
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Why doesn't ln -s tell that it fails when creating a symlink to an existing symlinked directory?
When running (on linux different ubuntu variations):
>ln -s dir_1 symlink_dir
>ln -s dir_2 symlink_dir
It fails without telling that it fails. But if you do the same thing on a file instead ...
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Create symbolic links with wildcards
I have multiple hard drives with the same directory hierarchy, for example:
/media/sda/dir1
/media/sda/dir2
...
/media/sdb/dir1
/media/sdb/dir2
Two hard drives with similar names and similar ...
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Use `ln` to create a missing directory
So I'm writing a small package manager, and a problem I've run into is making the symbolic links to files.
It installs the package to /usr/pkg/name-version, and then reads a file to determine what ...
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How to replace a symbolic link with an equivalent hard link?
Having a (single, no batch filesystem processing needed) symlink, what a command line to use to turn it into a hard link to the same file?
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How to make a symbolic link to /usr/bin/vim but with start-up parameters?
After I make&make install vim from source, I found many symbolic links of vim in /usr/local/bin, such as evim, rvim, view...
The vim(1) man page said that "rvim" is equivalent to "vim -Z" and so ...
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Executable symbolic link results in “command not found”
I created a symbolic link (yesterday) like this:
sudo ln -s bin/python /usr/bin/prj-python
When I run:
prj-python file.py
I get:
prj-python: command not found
When I try creating the link ...
