how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Fri Sep 10 03:10:46 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 08:23:09PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> 
> It looks like my 'lndir' script started out as a copy of a
> script named 'lndir.sh' that the XConsortium had in Oct 1988.

[snip]

> 
> Given that the port is written in C and much more recent, I
> suspect it is the right way to go.  For large directories it
> is much faster than my script.  I should check to see how
> much work it'd be to add my formatting to the C version.
> 
> The 'breakln' script might be something written here at RPI.
> Looks like the last change to it was done in 1993.  It is
> pretty simple:

[snip]

Thanks for the information and the breakln script.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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