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tag/mark a file with current absolute path
Hi all,

I need to mark a file with it's current location in the file system before being moved.

This will enable the file to be restored back to it's original location.

Can anyone provide any ideas about the best way to do this, at present i'm trying to use readlink -m to strip off the absolute path of the file but am unsure if there is any way of marking the file other than simply appending the absolute path as text to the end of it.

thanks for any replies

skinny
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Old 12-10-2009
Maintain a repository that 'remembers' the old absolute path for all your files. It can be db tables or a physical file.

I saw a cvs hack that kept track of files and directories by moving the real file somewhere, then creating a small 6-8 byte file of the same name and checking it into cvs. The downside was setting up dozens of fake source directories. I have never tried this so I cannot vouch for it's robustness.
 
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