07-07-2011
How to remove soft link safely
Greetings,
I need some help performing a system admin function that I have been tasked with. The request seems simple enough, but my feeling is that it might be more complicated than it seems.
Here is what i've been tasked with:
SunOS 5.10 Generic_142900-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
1).Remove a soft link between two nfs mounted filesystems.
2).Move all the files from /CV/in/data to /EABATCH/ENV/in/data
/EABATCH (wdcprodhome:/eabatch/EABATCH) soft link listed below
lrwxrwxrwx 1 batchop batchtaa 11 Mar 6 2009 data -> /CV/in/data
/CV (wdcprodhome:/CV )
/CV/in/data contains 2835 files.
Currently there is no /EABATCH/ENV/in/data, only a soft link to /CV/in/data.
My plan to to create a directory under /EABATCH/ENV/in and call it migrate.
copy all the files from /CV/in/data to /EABATCH/ENV/in/migrate
remove the soft link by issuing rm data from /EABATCH/ENV/in
create a directory name "data" under /EABATCH/ENV/in
move all file from /EABATCH/ENV/in/migrate to /EABATCH/ENV/in/data
Can someone tell me if my plan will work or is there a better approach?
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NAME
colorgccrc - configuration file for colorgcc
DESCRIPTION
A colorgccrc configuration file is used to configure the highlighting of the compiler output from colorgcc.
SYNTAX
Each line consists of a keyword designating a configuration variable. The keyword is followed by `:' and then one or several values
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CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
g++ | gcc | c++ | cc | g77 | gcj | gnat | gpc
Specifies the paths to the compilers. Takes one value; a path to the compiler.
nocolor
Specifies what terminal types colorization should be disabled on. Takes one or several values, separated by whitespace.
srcColor
Specifies the highlighting attributes source-code should be given. Takes one or several color attributes. See the section COLOR
ATTRIBUTES for more information.
introColor
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ATTRIBUTES for more information.
warningFileNameColor | errorFileNameColor
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attributes. See the section COLOR ATTRIBUTES for more information.
warningNumberColor | errorNumberColor
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Specifies the highlighting attributes for the message-text in a warning or an error, respectively. Takes one or several color
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COLOR ATTRIBUTES
The following attributes are valid for highlighting.
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black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white
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SEE ALSO
gcc(1), colorgcc(1)
HISTORY
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