I have a file with more than 1 layers of soft links for it. For ex.
I want to get the name of the last file (i.e. .profile_final) when I refer to .profile using shell script. I could not find any option available to get this.
Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by vbe; 10-06-2010 at 04:50 AM..
Reason: code tags
Hi,
Is there a limit to the number of symbolic links you can have?
I tried to vi the symbolic link relating to a file and got the following error:
"filename" Too many levels of symbolic links
There is only one symbolic link to one file in this case, but there are >2000 other links to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
- we have copy (cp command) to do to save all the contents of a dty BUT we dont want to copy the files corresponding to symbolic links contained whithin this dty
- the box is a sun solaris one - and the cp commande do not say avything about that?
thanks for help
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COLORMGR(1)COLORMGR(1)NAME
colormgr - Color Manager Testing Tool
SYNOPSIS
colormgr [ --verbose ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the colormgr command.
colormgr allows an administrator to view and change color profile to device mappings.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
below.
--help Show summary of options.
COMMANDS
This program takes commands with a variable number of arguments.
create-device
Creates a color managed device
create-profile
Create a color profile
delete-device
Deletes a color managed device
delete-profile
Deletes a color profile
device-add-profile
Add a profile to a device that already exists
device-get-default-profile
Gets the default color profile for a device
device-get-profile-for-qualifier
Returns all the profiles that match a given qualifier
device-make-profile-default
Makes a profile default for a specific device
device-set-kind
Sets the device kind
device-set-model
Sets the device model
device-set-serial
Sets the device serial
device-set-vendor
Sets the device vendor
find-device
Find a device from the device ID
find-device-by-property
Find a device with a given property value
find-profile
Find a profile from the profile ID
find-profile-by-filename
Find a profile from the filename
get-devices
Gets all the color managed devices
get-devices-by-kind
Gets all the color managed devices of a specific kind
get-profiles
Gets all the available color profiles
profile-set-filename
Sets the profile filename
profile-set-qualifier
Sets the profile qualifier
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>.
20 December,2008 COLORMGR(1)