On Tue 08 Mar 2016 17:57:10 NZDT +1300, Criggie wrote: > I'm sure this can be optimised, but how's this for some dirty hackery.
Dirty, yes, clever, not so sure. I don't think I'd be game to run that on one of my filesystems. Checking for empty lines would be essential, and gawk is much better at splitting the input than xargs -n3! You could also program this in bash, efficiency is not your main problem, and it had the advantage of being reusable. Personally I'd run cp -al to-be-sorted some-other-place befre running anything else. Then I'd think about short scripting that is able to verify whether the linking took place correctly. E.g. find -type f | xargs md5sum must produce identical output before and after. To avoid getting into the same situation again, look at rsync --dest-dir. That's the secret ingredient in rsnapshot. Your dirty method destroys directories lastmod stamps, I always get very irate with that kind of thing. > And the script merely spits out shell commands which are then executed. Good. > So testing it is just running the command without the backticks of > execution. Crikey! I wouldn't risk that. Pipe into sh -s instead. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
