Ive got multiple PCs, sharing an NFS mounted home dir. For certain apps I would like to keep the config files host specific. Easy solution is to create symlinks to local folders for configs. Ideally I would still want the .config files to reside in the user home folder.
Is it possible to create a symlink with a variable in its name that where the variable is expanded when the link is traversed, rather than when the link is created.
Very simple answer to that I'm afraid: No. A symlink is not dynamic like that in any way.
Why not just handle the dir in /etc/profile? That's what it's there for.
Hello All,
Assuming i have a thousand symlinks under directory /mydir (and its sub-dir) such as:
mysymlink1 -> ../../../myfoo/mysymlink1
mysymlink2 -> ../../../myfoo/mysymlink2
How can I search the string "myfoo" and replaced with "yourfoo" such that after the operation is complete the... (2 Replies)
Please don't laugh or call me a fool...
I'm trying to set up a script that will go through my Music File directory and generate a set of symbolic links in a directory called "What's New". Within that directory there will be a "30 Days", "3 Months", "6 Months" and "A Year" directories. Within... (0 Replies)
I create the tar file from / like so:
tar cEhf name.tar usr/us
And this creates the tar with the links intact. The problem is that this tar is going to be used for testing, so we want the links to point to the files in the tar. But when I extract the tar into /tmp, I get /tmp/usr/us/... as I... (2 Replies)
I need to have my script know what directory it's in, even if it's run from a symlink located elsewhere. Here's what I've come up with, for the benefit of anyone with a similar need, but I'm also interested to know if there's a more elegant solution. I'd rather not get into awk-land, but I couldn't... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have inherited an old Solaris box and I have to copy all of its files onto another machine, a Centos Box. The Solaris box it so ancient is does not have rsync, scp or any other useful copy functions. I tried using RCP but it handles symlinks terribly: Extraneous data is written to my... (1 Reply)
Hi,
My first post here:
Was looking if someone can help enhancing my code.
I am limited to sh or ash shell (android / busybox)
I made a script to look for busybox symlinks, backup them and delete them
I have these questions about the below code:
- busybox tar do not has the options... (2 Replies)
So i have read the man pages a few time. Searched google but I am not quite sure i understand all the lingo.
What i want to do is list all files on / except i dont want any symlinks (because if I am searching / I will find the "true" file...correct?)
So there is the -P, -H, and '-type l'... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I use rsync to move from source to target, but there are cases that I need to exclude:
Suppose in my file system, I have a soft link ~/data -> /media/volgrp/data.
Under data folder, there is a file hello.txt.
After moving command "rsync --remove-source-files -aH --force ~/data/... (3 Replies)
I wrote this code, questions follow
#! /bin/bash -f
# Purpose - to show how if syntax is used within an awk
clear;
ls -l;
echo "This will print out the first two columns of the inputted file in this directory";
echo "Enter filename found in this directory";
read input;
... (11 Replies)
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dist::zilla::plugin::gatherdir
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GatherDir(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GatherDir(3pm)NAME
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GatherDir - gather all the files in a directory
VERSION
version 4.300020
DESCRIPTION
This is a very, very simple FileGatherer plugin. It looks in the directory named in the "root" attribute and adds all the files it finds
there. If the root begins with a tilde, the tilde is replaced with the current user's home directory according to File::HomeDir.
Almost every dist will be built with one GatherDir plugin, since it's the easiest way to get files from disk into your dist. Most users
just need:
[GatherDir]
...and this will pick up all the files from the current directory into the dist. You can use it multiple times, as you can any other
plugin, by providing a plugin name. For example, if you want to include external specification files into a subdir of your dist, you might
write:
[GatherDir]
; this plugin needs no config and gathers most of your files
[GatherDir / SpecFiles]
; this plugin gets all the files in the root dir and adds them under ./spec
root = ~/projects/my-project/spec
prefix = spec
ATTRIBUTES
root
This is the directory in which to look for files. If not given, it defaults to the dist root -- generally, the place where your dist.ini
or other configuration file is located.
prefix
This parameter can be set to gather all the files found under a common directory. See the description above for an example.
include_dotfiles
By default, files will not be included if they begin with a dot. This goes both for files and for directories relative to the "root".
In almost all cases, the default value (false) is correct.
follow_symlinks
By default, directories that are symlinks will not be followed. Note on the other hand that in all followed directories, files which are
symlinks are always gathered.
exclude_filename
To exclude certain files from being gathered, use the "exclude_filename" option. This may be used multiple times to specify multiple files
to exclude.
exclude_match
This is just like "exclude_filename" but provides a regular expression pattern. Files matching the pattern are not gathered. This may be
used multiple times to specify multiple patterns to exclude.
AUTHOR
Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Ricardo SIGNES.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
perl v5.14.2 2012-06-21 Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GatherDir(3pm)