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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete and Recreate around 400 Symbolic Links in one Folder Post 302516635 by ambition13 on Sunday 24th of April 2011 02:53:51 PM
Old 04-24-2011
It worked! Wow man you just saved me so much data entry it's not funny. I appreciate this SO much. Smilie


Quote:
Originally Posted by kato
try this from within your folder with the links:
Code:
find . -type l | xargs ls -l | awk '{system("ln -sf " $11" "$9)}'

Although, you may want to test this first or it will mess up your links:
Code:
find . -type l | xargs ls -l | awk '{print "ln -sf " $11" "$9}'

then if it looks ok:
Code:
find . -type l | xargs ls -l | awk '{print "ln -sf " $11" "$9}'  | sh

 

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SIEVESHELL(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SIEVESHELL(1)

NAME
sieveshell - remotely manipulate sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
sieveshell [--user=user] [--authname=authname] [--realm=realm] [--exec=script] server[:port] sieveshell --help DESCRIPTION
sieveshell allows users to manipulate their scripts on a remote server. It works via MANAGESIEVE, a work in progress. The following commands are recognized: list list scripts on server. put <filename> upload script to server. get <name> [<filename>] get script. if no filename display to stdout delete <name> delete script. activate <name> activate script. deactivate deactivate all scripts. OPTIONS
-u user, --user=user The authorization name to request; by default, derived from the authentication credentials. -a authname, --authname=authname The user to use for authentication (defaults to current user). -r realm, --realm=realm The realm to attempt authentication in. -e script, --exec=script Instead of working interactively, run commands from script, and exit when done. REFERENCES
[MANAGESIEVE] Martin, T.; "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", draft-ietf-managesieve-03.txt, Mirapoint, Inc.; May 2001, work in progress. AUTHOR
Tim Martin <tmartin@mirapoint.com>, and the rest of the Cyrus team <cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu>. perl v5.10.0 2008-04-04 SIEVESHELL(1)
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