On Tue, 6 Jun 2017, davidson@freevolt.org wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017, Rodolfo Medina wrote:Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 06:41:03PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:But, Ialso need that, when renaming the target file, the link would automaticallychange its name so that it keeps equal to the target's name... Is this possibile?Totally possible. Write a library of functions with functions that simultaneously 1. perform the hard link manipulations you need 2. update a database that tracks, for each media file, its linked-locations. Then just use your new functions to manipulate your a/v media files.
Clarification/correction to above sentence: It's the *links* your functions would primarily manipulate. not the files.
Problem solved.
(Apologies for sounding so glib. In my defense, I was celebrating a little, because I realised that I too might like to have the same functionality OP has described, and it looks not difficult to implement.)
No. Not without exhaustively searching the file system to find the other links and rename them, and that would have to be something you do manually, *not* automatically triggered by a rename. What are you actually trying to do?I'm making a musical mp3s library. So I have, say, the following directory tree: