how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

[Aryeh Friedman]

After playing around here is what I came up with (cpio -l never did
the links right):

#!/bin/tcsh
foreach i ( `find ~aegis/fnre/baseline/src/ -type d | grep -v
src/build | cut -f6- -d'/'` )
	mkdir $i
end

foreach i ( `find ~aegis/fnre/baseline/src/ -type f -name '*.java' |
grep -v src/build | cut -f6- -d'/'` )
	ln -s ~aegis/fnre/baseline/$i $i
end


On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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