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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Creating links to multiple folders Post 302307148 by d.the.duck on Tuesday 14th of April 2009 05:54:59 PM
Old 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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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
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Mike O'Regan 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. perl v5.14.2 Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitAugmentedAssignmentInDeclaration(3pm)
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