Re: tool to turn redundant files into symlinks

2007-05-22 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 21 May 2007 23:51:24 Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi Weskey, > > Am Di den 22. Mai 2007 um 0:53 schrieb Wesley J. Landaker: > > > If hardlinks are okay too, see the "perforate" package (I find this > > > package hard to find, since the name is somewhat misleading). It's > > > written in Perl. >

Re: tool to turn redundant files into symlinks

2007-05-21 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Weskey, Am Di den 22. Mai 2007 um 0:53 schrieb Wesley J. Landaker: > > If hardlinks are okay too, see the "perforate" package (I find this > > package hard to find, since the name is somewhat misleading). It's > > written in Perl. > > Well, thank

Re: tool to turn redundant files into symlinks

2007-05-21 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 21 May 2007 00:16:13 Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:42:56PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > For a package problem I'm trying to solve (#414422), it would be nice > > to have a tool that could find duplicate files (ala fslint[1] or > > fdupes[2]) and turn th

Re: tool to turn redundant files into symlinks

2007-05-20 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:42:56PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > For a package problem I'm trying to solve (#414422), it would be nice to > have a tool that could find duplicate files (ala fslint[1] or fdupes[2]) > and turn them into symlinks. If hardlinks are okay too, see the "perforate"

tool to turn redundant files into symlinks

2007-05-20 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
Hi folks, For a package problem I'm trying to solve (#414422), it would be nice to have a tool that could find duplicate files (ala fslint[1] or fdupes[2]) and turn them into symlinks. I could create something that does this just for this package, but does anyone know of such a pre-existing to