Re: Browsing offline filesystems
On 2009-02-10_12:56:53, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie,
> to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a
> small home network with a laptop, and often I need to know what's on
> any particular machine that is not present at the moment.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
The -s option in cp makes it create soft links rather than a actual
copy of leaf files. You can use this to create a pure softlink copy
of whatever structure you are interested in, and then copy this to
the other computer. You will get on the other computer, the whole
structure with each actual file represented by a broken softlink.
This is like what you might get with tree, but the visual and keystoke
interaction will be entirely the same as if you were searching on
the computer where the data really is. Except that ... you find a
broken link rather than the data. But now you know its there, and
what you need to do to get it.
I haven't done it, but I think it will work.
Try it and let me know. I'm interested in finding out. ;-)
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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