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, I also need that, when renaming the target file, the link would automatically change 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.
Problem solved.
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: