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NAME

       lndir - create a shadow directory of symbolic links to another directory tree

SYNOPSIS

       lndir [ options ] fromdir [ todir ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  lndir  program  makes  a  shadow  copy  todir of a directory tree fromdir, except that the shadow is not populated with real files but
       instead with symbolic links pointing at the real files in the fromdir directory tree.  This is usually useful for maintaining  source  code
       for  different  machine	architectures.	 You  create  a  shadow directory containing links to the real source, which you will have usually
       mounted from a remote machine.  You can build in the shadow tree, and the object files will be in the shadow directory,	while  the  source
       files in the shadow directory are just symlinks to the real files.

       This  scheme  has  the advantage that if you update the source, you need not propagate the change to the other architectures by hand, since
       all source in all shadow directories are symlinks to the real thing: just cd to the shadow directory and recompile away.

       The todir argument is optional and defaults to the current directory.  The fromdir argument may be relative (e.g., ../src) and is  relative
       to todir (not the current directory).

       If you add files, simply run lndir again.  New files will be silently added.  Old files will be checked that they have the correct link.

       Deleting files is a more painful problem; the symlinks will just point into never-never land.

OPTIONS

       -silent
	      Normally	lndir  outputs the name of each subdirectory as it descends into it.  The -silent option suppresses these status messages.
	      -silent may be abbreviated to -s.

       -ignorelinks
	      If a file in fromdir is a symbolic link, lndir will make the same link in todir rather than making a  link  back	to  the  (symbolic
	      link)  entry  in	fromdir.   The -ignorelinks option changes this behavior.  The link created in todir will point back to the corre-
	      sponding (symbolic link) file in fromdir.  If the link is to a directory, this is almost certainly the wrong  thing.   The  -ignore-
	      links option may be abbreviated to -i.

       -withsymdirs
	      If  a  file  in  fromdir is a symbolic link to a directory and the -withsymdirs option is specified, lndir will shadow the directory
	      tree the symbolic link points to, whether or not the -ignorelinks is also specified.  The -withsymdirs option may be abbreviated	to
	      -d.

       -clean lndir will remove dangling symbolic links and empty directories in the shadow tree.  The -clean option may be abbreviated to -c.

       -cleanonly
	      lndir  will  do the cleaning phase only, not creating the shadow tree.  The todir argument may be provided, and defaults to the cur-
	      rent directory when not provided.

       -withrevinfo
	      lndir will normally not shadow any BitKeeper, RCS, SCCS, CVS, CVS.adm and .svn subdirectories, nor  any  .cvsignore  and	.gitignore
	      files.   This option causes these directories and files to be treated as any other, rather than ignored.	-withrevinfo may be short-
	      ened to -r.

       -noexceptions
	      By default, lndir does not shadow files or directories whose name is .DS_Store, or ._.DS_Store, or starts with '.#', or ends in '~'.
	      This option, which may be abbreviated to -E, causes such files to also be shadowed.

       -except
	      This  option  adds name to an initially empty list of filenames in fromdir that are not to be shadowed.  -except may be specified as
	      -e.  This option may be repeated as many times as necessary.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The program displays the name of each subdirectory it enters, followed by a colon.  The -silent option suppresses these messages.

       A warning message is displayed if the symbolic link cannot be created.  The usual problem is that a regular file of the same  name  already
       exists.

       If the link already exists but doesn't point to the correct file, the program prints the link name and the location to which it does point.

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