It is risky to remove symlink targets! Imagine there's a symlink to /etc ...!
The following checks the link target to have at least two /. But e.g. a link to /etc/passwd would still delete /etc/passwd.
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 06-15-2015 at 09:11 AM..
Reason: dirname not basename
hi...
I have a folder<abc> under /root folder. I want to create a symlink such that when i click on folder<abc> under root, should display my home folder (home/krish).
Immediate inputs appreciated..... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I want to create a symlink on a link file, i mean, there is a file which is actually a symlink of some version. Now i want to create one more symlink on that link file.
EX: there is a file:
uat -> version
prod -> version
Now i want to create one more link on these 'uat' and... (1 Reply)
Hello every body,
Kindly support me to "copy a file without remove the contents of the target file"
Thanks in advance. :)
Ahmed Amer
Cairo,Egypt (2 Replies)
I have a target directory, there are some files and directories in "target_dir".
I have a symbol link: my_link -> <target_dir>
The target directory name is NOT known to the script (because it is varying), while the link name is always fixed.
In a shell script, how to remove both the... (1 Reply)
Hi Forums,
I got a little problem, I made a few modifications to the code of the launch script of a testing server(minecraft) and now updating is broken aswell as the automatic directory creation.
These Lines somehow create an endless symlink that refers to itself and I don't know how to fix... (0 Replies)
Hello,
can someone please suggest or is it possible to hide the path for the link from viewing it from remote users.
for examples.
as root user login
#ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Oct 2 16:05 sftpdata -> /data/sftphome/sftpuser1/sftpdata/
#pwd
/home/user1
#
when user1 logs... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
Is there any way to create a symlink that will point to last 1000 line of a log file. My symlink will always point to "tail -1000 logfile".
This can be achieved by writing a script and scheduling with high frequency, but I am looking for some other alternatives.
Please let me know... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I wanted to configure new iscsi port on HPUX system, i added the target port address and configured it, once done, went to array side and searched for that host iqn number , but was nt able to find the same, came to host, then when i ran "iscsiutil -pVS" command it gave me below result
... (0 Replies)
I am trying to setup my plex server to use symlinks rather than host the movie files.
in my storage directory, i have both movies(some in subdirectory of the name and some just in the parent directory) and tvshows, which have subdirectories for each season, which contains the episodes
i would... (3 Replies)
I know how to create a symlink but I am getting an error message that the file already exists. Also, my symlink doesn't point from target directory to the path correctly,
Here is an example of the path to my folder structure
path: cd /wkspce/wff/DEV/jobs/DEL
the folder structure is:
... (3 Replies)
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zip_source_file
ZIP_SOURCE_FILE(3) Library Functions Manual ZIP_SOURCE_FILE(3)NAME
zip_source_file - create data source from a file
LIBRARY
libzip (-lzip)
SYNOPSIS
struct zip_source * zip_source_file(struct zip *archive, const char *fname); "zip_uint64_t start" "zip_int64_t len"
DESCRIPTION
The function zip_source_file creates a zip source from a file. zip_source_file opens fname and reads len bytes from offset start from it.
If len is 0 or -1, the whole file (starting from start ) is used.
The fie is opened and read when the data from the source is used, usually by zip_close.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the created source is returned. Otherwise, NULL is returned and the error code in archive is set to indicate
the error.
ERRORS
zip_source_file fails if:
[ZIP_ER_INVAL]
fname, start, or len are invalid.
[ZIP_ER_MEMORY]
Required memory could not be allocated.
[ZIP_ER_OPEN]
Opening fname failed.
SEE ALSO libzip(3), zip_add(3), zip_replace(3), zip_source_buffer(3), zip_source_filep(3), zip_source_free(3), zip_source_function(3),
zip_source_zip(3)AUTHORS
Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>
NiH August 1, 2008 ZIP_SOURCE_FILE(3)