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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting print summary of directory, and group all symbolic links Post 302502024 by alister on Sunday 6th of March 2011 03:06:51 PM
Old 03-06-2011
You could replace
Code:
cut -d ":" -f 2

with
Code:
sed 's/[^:]*://; s/^ symbolic link to.*/ symbolic link/'

In all cases, it removes everything up to the first colon, inclusive. In the case of symbolic link, it'll strip away everything beginning with the space after "symbolic link".

Except for deleting the target of a symbolic link, it should yield output identical to your cut approach so that subsequent commands require no modification.

Regards,
Alister
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

update-boinc-applinks

update-boinc-applinks(1)												  update-boinc-applinks(1)

NAME

       update-boinc-applinks - create/remove symbolic links for anonymous BOINC applications

SYNOPSIS

       update-boinc-applinks [options]

DESCRIPTION

       update-boinc-applinks  creates  (or  removes)  symbolic links for anonymous BOINC applications and their associated app_info.xml files in a
       given BOINC data directory.

       Note: update-boinc-applinks is an extension for Debian users and is only available in Debian's boinc-client package.

OPTIONS

       For a full summary of options, run update-boinc-applinks --help.

       -h, --help
	      Show help message and all options.

       --create
	      Create symbolic links and project directories.

       --remove
	      Remove symbolic links and empty project directories.

       --data-dir=DIR
	      Manage symbolic links in the given directory DIR. If this option is not present, DIR defaults to the current working directory.

       --project=PROJECT
	      Manage symbolic links only for the given project PROJECT.  Run update-boinc-applinks --list-projects to get a list of  projects  for
	      which  anonymous applications are available and therefore can be replaced with PROJECT. If this option is not present, update-boinc-
	      applinks will manage symbolic links for all available projects.

       --list-projects
	      Show a list of projects for which anonymous applications are available. Normally those applications are provided by packages  called
	      boinc-app-PROJECT (e.g. boinc-app-seti).

AUTHOR

       Written by Frank S. Thomas.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006, 2008 Debian BOINC Maintainers.

       This  is  free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later
       version published by the Free Software Foundation.

								  13 January 2008					  update-boinc-applinks(1)
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