Re: Symlink farming to keep a list of new data

2002-02-20 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* 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

Re: Symlink farming to keep a list of new data

2002-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
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 w

Re: Symlink farming to keep a list of new data

2002-02-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Feb 20, 2002, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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? > The idea here is to get a listing of all the new files in the last n > days and k

Re: Symlink farming to keep a list of new data

2002-02-20 Thread Yven J. Leist
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 10:41, 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? > The idea here is to get a listing of all the new files in the last n > days and keep i

Symlink farming to keep a list of new data

2002-02-20 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
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? The idea here is to get a listing of all the new files in the last n days and keep it up to date in some directory off to the side. -- Baloo