How do you create a hardlink (as opposed to a symlink or a Mac OS alias) in OS X that points to a directory? I already know the command "ln target destination" but that only works when the target is a file. I know that Mac OS, unlike other Unix environments, does allow hardlinking to folders (this is used for Time Machine, for example) b...
I have a list of dotFiles at my workarea. For example, .bashrc and .vimrc. I want to make a symlinks from them to my Home such that their names are the same as in my workarea -folder. My attempt in pseudo-code ln workarea/.[a-zA-Z] ~/.* The problem is to have a bijection from [a-zA-Z] to the files which occur in my Home. How can yo...
I've got a folder that's got a whole lot of folders inside, which each contain a movie file. Now I want to be able to see all these movies at one time (but I have to preserve the folder structure) so I wanted to symlink them all to the top level folder (flat view in Directory Opus would be the go here, but I'm on a mac). Here's my attemp...
I have a file that was deleted, but is still held open my a program. I found the inode number using lsof. How can I create a hard link back to that inode? Any code helps, but Perl would be handy. ...
Currently, when I create a shared library, functions from within the same object files like to lie together. Is there a good solution (that does not involve splitting up source files) to try and spread function locations apart? We are currently using a cross-compiled, 4.2.1 version of gcc and the gnu tools. ...
I want to link ( ln -s ) all files that are in /mnt/usr/lib/ into /usr/lib/ There are lots of file, how to do it fast? :) ...
I have just, in my groggy morning state, reversed & confused the arguments to ln, replacing /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Toronto with a link to the non-existant /etc/localtime, when I really wanted to link /etc/localtime to Toronto. Now I have no timezone file for where I live. Does anybody have a copy or know where I could get one? It's ...
Using Python I want to create a symbolic link pointing to a path that does not exist. However os.symlink just complains about "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:".. This can easily be done with the ln program, but how to do it in Python without calling the ln program from Python? Edit: somehow I really messed this up :/ ... b...
I am trying to use the output from 'mdfind' to create a bunch of symlinks. Output of 'mdfind' is like this: /pathtofile1/ /pathtofile2/ /pathtofile3/ So, I used 'sed' to add 'ln -s ' to the start of each line, and awk {print $0 "/directory where I want this/"}; after my single-line script successfully outputs this: ln -s "...