04-14-2009
Creating links to multiple folders
Hi All,
First of all, I'm a unix newbie so don't be to hard on me
I'm not even sure if the thing that I want is even possible but here goes nothing:
On my linux based NAS I have the following structure:
videos
|---movie 1
|---movie 2
|---movie 3
|
USBDISK
|---videos
|--- movie 4
|--- movie 5
No I would really like, when I list "/videos" to show everything thats in the "/videos" folder PLUS everything that's in the "/USBDISK/videos" folder. No I'm kind of hoping that can be arranged with one soft link creation, but I don't think that's really possible. Another option would be to create a cronjob (I googled that term
) which looks at "/USBDISK/videos" every hour or so and will create a symbolic link for each and every movie that's not linked to "/videos" at that point. But I don't know if that's possible either... and if it is I have NO clue how to.
I hope my question is a little clear and that someone can help me... if not... thanks for reading that kind of noob question!
Regards,
Kees.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dbix::dbstag::sqltemplate
DBIx::DBStag::SQLTemplate(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation DBIx::DBStag::SQLTemplate(3pm)
NAME
DBIx::DBStag::SQLTemplate - A Template for an SQL query
SYNOPSIS
# find template by name
$template = $dbh->find_template("mydb-personq");
# execute this template, filling in the 'name' attribute
$xml = $dbh->selectall_xml(-template=>$template,
-bind=>{name => "fred"});
DESCRIPTION
A template represents a canned query that can be parameterized.
Templates are collected in directories (in future it will be possible to store them in files or in the db itself).
To tell DBStag where your templates are, you should set:
setenv DBSTAG_TEMPLATE_DIRS "$HOME/mytemplates:/data/bioconf/templates"
Your templates should end with the suffix .stg, otherwise they will not be picked up
You can name templates any way you like, but the standard way is to use 2 or 3 fields
SCHEMA-OBJECT
or
SCHEMA-OBJECT-QUALIFIERS
(with underscores used within fields)
A template file should contain at minimum some SQL; for example:
Example template 1
SELECT
studio.*,
movie.*,
star.*
FROM
studio NATURAL JOIN
movie NATURAL JOIN
movie_to_star NATURAL JOIN
star
WHERE
[movie.genre = &genre&] [star.lastname = &lastname&]
USE NESTING (set(studio(movie(star))))
Thats all! However, there are ways to make your template more useful
Example template 2
:SELECT
studio.*,
movie.*,
star.*
:FROM
studio NATURAL JOIN
movie NATURAL JOIN
movie_to_star NATURAL JOIN
star
:WHERE
[movie.genre = &genre&] [star.lastname = &lastname&]
:USE NESTING (set(studio(movie(star))))
//
schema: movie
desc: query for fetching movies
By including : at the beginning it makes it easier for parsers to assemble SQL (this is not necessary for DBStag however)
After the // you can add tag: value data.
You should set schema: if you want the template to be available to users of a db that conforms to that schema
GETTING A TEMPLATE
The DBIx::DBStag object gives various methods for fetching templates by name, by database or by schema
VARIABLES
WHERE clause variables in the template look like this
&foo&
variables are bound at query time
my $set = $dbh->selectall_stag(-template=>$t,
-bind=>["bar"]);
or
my $set = $dbh->selectall_stag(-template=>$t,
-bind=>{foo=>"bar"});
If the former is chosen, variables are bound from the bind list as they are found
OPTIONAL BLOCKS
WHERE [ foo = &foo& ]
If foo is not bound then the part between the square brackets is left out
Multiple option blocks are ANDed together
An option block need not contain a variable - if it contains no &variable& name it is automatically ANDed
BINDING OPERATORS
The operator can be bound at query time too
WHERE [ foo => &foo& ]
Will become either
WHERE foo = ?
or
WHERE foo LIKE ?
or
WHERE foo IN (f0, f1, ..., fn)
Depending on whether foo contains the % character, or if foo is bound to an ARRAY
METHODS
name
Usage - $name = $template->name
Returns - str
Args -
every template has a name that (should) uniquely identify it
desc
Usage - $desc = $template->desc
Returns - str
Args -
templates have optional descriptions
get_varnames
Usage - $varnames = $template->get_varnames
Returns - listref of strs
Args -
Returns the names of all variable used in this template
WEBSITE
<http://stag.sourceforge.net>
AUTHOR
Chris Mungall <cjm@fruitfly.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003 Chris Mungall
This module is free software. You may distribute this module under the same terms as perl itself
perl v5.12.4 2010-02-01 DBIx::DBStag::SQLTemplate(3pm)