04-14-2009
Cron, daemon, either way
You could just create a small perl program that would do that for you. something like
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $target = "/usb/videos";
my $prefix = "/videos";
my $cmd = "ln -F";
while (1){
my @foo= `ls -1 /videos`
foreach my $bar(@foo){
chomp $bar;
my $order = $cmd . " ".$target.$bar." ".$prefix.$bar
system ($order);
}
sleep 1200;
}
Bear in mind, you'd need to specifiy your own perl, clean up paths to use the full path names (you don't have to use absolute paths, but I always do). And this is the daemon verison, updates every 1200 seconds. No eror checking or interrupt handling. Not great work, but hacked to make the point.
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NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitAugmentedAssignmentInDeclaration - Do not write " my $foo .= 'bar'; ".
AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
DESCRIPTION
Variable declarations that also do initialization with '=' are common. Perl also allows you to use operators like '.=', '+=', etc., but it
it is more clear to not do so.
my $foo .= 'bar'; # same as my $foo = 'bar';
our $foo *= 2; # same as our $foo = 0;
my ( $foo, $bar ) += ( 1, 2 ); # same as my ( $foo, $bar ) = ( undef, 2 );
local $Carp::CarpLevel += 1; # same as local $Carp::CarpLevel = 1;
state $foo += 2; # adds 2 every time it's encountered
Such constructs are usually the result of botched cut-and-paste, and often are bugs. Some produce warnings.
CONFIGURATION
This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.
AUTHOR
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2011 Mike O'Regan. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license
can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
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