10-20-2008
If someone has a file open, your actions will not affect their process.
When that person closes the file and then reopens it, then the change takes effect.
Make sure permissions are identical for the current directory & parent directory of the linked-to file and the file itself or you will break a lot of things. Ditto the symlink.
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build-jar-repository
BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1) User Commands BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)
NAME
build-jar-repository - create a symbolic link to a JAR
SYNOPSIS
build-jar-repository [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... JAR
DESCRIPTION
Build a JAR repository in the named directory by copying files or creating symbolic links
OPTIONS
If no option is specified the default action will be to create symbolic links
-c, --copy
copy files
-h, --hard
create hard links
-p, --preserve-naming
try to preserve the names of the original JAR files (in case of a nested hit the slashes in the path will still be replaced by
underscores)
using this option makes any future automated repository rebuild impossible, and implies -c unless specified otherwise
-s, --soft, --symbolic
create symbolic links (default)
--help
display help text
EXAMPLES
build-jar-repository . jndi
will create a symbolic link to the JNDI JAR in the current working directory
build-jar-repository -h /tmp oro
will create a hard link to the ORO JAR in /tmp
AUTHOR
Written by Nicholas Mailhot and David Walluck
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs using JPackage Bugzilla (http://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla/)
build-jar-repository (jpackage-utils) 1.7.0 March 2006 BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)