Re: Symlink farming to keep a list of new data
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 10:41, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> Is there a script in existance that would search for changes among a
> tree structure, symlink all the new files, and removes any old symlinks?
> The idea here is to get a listing of all the new files in the last n
> days and keep it up to date in some directory off to the side.
cd {your "side directory"} &&
find {you dirtree} -atime -{number of days} | xargs -i ln -s {} &&
for i in *; do if [ ! -e $i ]; then rm $i; fi; done
might do the trick :-)
cheers,
Yven
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