* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:41:40AM -0800, 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? > > It's not normally used for quite this purpose, but can you persuade > 'stow' to do what you want?
If it's only files (no subdirectories), stow -D (unstow), followed by normal stow run should do that. It won't work if the tree itself changes (new/deleted subdirs), and of course it doesn't check for any changes -- it simply symlinks everything. Dima -- Well, lusers are technically human. -- Red Drag Diva
