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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users search and replace symlinks Post 87057 by Perderabo on Wednesday 19th of October 2005 03:06:47 PM
Old 10-19-2005
This is a little on the dangerous side to say the least. Run this script...it will produce a second script. Examine that second script carefully before you run it.
Code:
#! /usr/bin/ksh

function dodir
{
        typeset fname data savedir
        ls | while read fname ; do
                if [[ -L $fname ]] ; then
                        data=$(ls -l $fname)
                        data=${data##* }
                        data=$(echo "$data" | sed 's=myfoo=yourfoo=')
                        echo rm $1/$fname
                        echo ln -s $data $1/$fname
                elif [[ -d $fname ]] ; then
                        savedir=$(pwd)
                        cd $fname
                        dodir $savedir/$fname
                        cd $savedir
                fi
        done
        return
}

dodir $(pwd)
exit 0

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

wm-icons-config

WM-ICONS-CONFIG(1)					      General Commands Manual						WM-ICONS-CONFIG(1)

NAME

       wm-icons-config - show and set configuration for wm-icons

SYNOPSIS

       wm-icons-config [options] NAME [ICON_SET] ...

DESCRIPTION

       This  show  wm-icons  package  configuration, and the list of installed icon sets. It also is used to set aliases to icon-sets in system or
       user space. In the synopsis above, NAME is icon alias name, ICON_SET is icon set directory  (for  example:  mini  16x16-default).  If  NAME
       already	exists as an alias, it is not overwritten, unless the --force option is given. Explicit NAMEs override --defaults.  Just the alias
       names are given for --which and --remove options.

OPTIONS

   Informational options: display info and exit
       --help Print a short usage message

       --version
	      Show version number and exit

       --inst-dir
	      Show wm-icons installed icon directory and exit

       --user-dir
	      Show wm-icons user icon directory and exit

       --show-defaults
	      Show default aliases and exit

       --show-aliases
	      Show the aliases currently present. One of --global, --personal, --user-dir must be given

       --show-sets
	      Show a list of installed icon sets

   Directory selection options: precisely one of these must be given
       --global
	      Set up global (system-wide) links in the base dir

       --personal
	      Set up personal links in ~/.wm-icons

       --user-dir=USER_DIR
	      Set up links in USER_DIR

   Choice of links: at least one of these must be given
       --defaults
	      Set up default aliases, as shown by --show-defaults

   Extra options
       --remove
	      Remove the symlinks rather than creating them, return (0, 1)

       --which
	      Show the icon set for the given alias(es), return (0, 1)

       --quiet
	      Do not output results of alias manipulating to stdout

       --force
	      Force overwriting of existing symlinks

BUGS

       None known.

AUTHORS

       Mikhael Goikhman <migo (at) cpan.org> and others (see file AUTHORS).

       This manual page was initially written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

								    09-Apr-2006 						WM-ICONS-CONFIG(1)
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