As fas as I know, symbolic links can't be used for folders/directories. Its for files.
Please correct me If I am wrong and let me know further on it.
Symbolic links work just fine for folders. You can't hardlink a folder, but symlinks can link to anything. You can even make a symlink that goes nowhere if you really want. It's just a string, in the end.
Absolute paths are reccomended since it takes the destination path completely literally without considering the current working directory at all.
Hi All,
One small request. In UNIX/LINUX we can have our own aliases in .bashrc file. My doubt is when we add a new alias and if it is tried in already opened terminals it will not work, may be it is not going to recognise. Bit when we use the same alias in new terminal it will work. I... (1 Reply)
Folks;
I know this might sound stupid, but Can i alias a web link to another web link in a UNIX server?
Let say i have a web link named http://test.new.com/wiki
Can i alias that so when i click on it or i type it in the browser address it opens but the link in the browser say something like:... (1 Reply)
HI All,
I have a small question/clarification/doubt . Does anyone know how to provide alias in the mails that come from Unix servers.
Like i have a Unix server that generates status mails every hour for a scheduled job , it sends me mails with status with the ID in from field as... (3 Replies)
Here's my opportunity.... I want to turn off the * expansion, execute the shell script and have it see the arguement with the * and not all the filenames, and then set +f once the script is executed.
1) I have an alias set as follows:
alias scp='set -f; /opt/dir1/dir2/script.sh ; set +f'... (1 Reply)
Hi,
is it normal, that the IP alias (service IP) can't be seen with ifconfig -a , as eth0:1 for example
the IP is on the node, you can ping it, and open ports for that IP
look at this:
# ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
link/loopback... (4 Replies)
hi to all members in this forums .. Nice to meet you...
i only have a questions about command utility of "dd":
for example i will type:
pico trial
this is my file.
and save it and type chmod a+x trial
can there be a way that instead of typing:
dd if=trial of=trial.copy conv=ucase... (3 Replies)
Being able to mark in an alias definition a point of minimal abbreviation, an old feature of VAX/VMS shell (DCL) would be really nice in modern *nix shells.
In DCL you used to be able to define an alias (in its own weird syntax) which would be something like this:
$ alias fuz*zyanimals="cat... (5 Replies)
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rsnapshot-diff
rsnapshot-diff(1)rsnapshot-diff(1)NAME
rsnapshot-diff - a utility for comparing the disk usage of two snapshots taken by rsnapshot
SYNOPSIS
rsnapshot-diff [-h|vVi] dir1 dir2
DESCRIPTION
rsnapshot-diff is a companion utility for rsnapshot, which traverses two parallel directory structures and calculates the difference
between them. By default it is silent apart from displaying summary information at the end, but it can be made more verbose.
In the summary, "added" files may very well include files which at first glance also appear at the same place in the older directory
structure. However, because the files differ in some respect, they are different files. They have a different inode number. Consequently
if you use -v most of its output may appear to be pairs of files with the same name being removed and added.
OPTIONS -h (help)
Displays help information
-v (verbose)
Be verbose. This will spit out a list of all changes as they are encountered, as well as the summary at the end.
-V (more verbose)
Be more verbose - as well as listed changes, unchanged files will be listed too.
-i (ignore)
If verbosity is turned on, -i suppresses information about symlinks, directories, and special files.
dir1 and dir2
These are the only compulsory parameters, and should be the names of two directories to compare. Their order doesn't matter,
rsnapshot-diff will always compare the younger to the older, so files that appear only in the older will be reported as having been
removed, and files that appear only in the younger will be reported as having been added.
SEE ALSO
rsnapshot
BUGS
Please report bugs (and other comments) to the rsnapshot-discuss mailing list:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss <http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss>
AUTHOR
David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2005 David Cantrell
LICENCE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
2011-07-09 rsnapshot-diff(1)