From: Louis J Scoras <louis.j.scoras@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T21:35:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] creating hard links for Directories.

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On 9/30/05, kraf001 <ihaveblackout@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> well the problem is when I use symbolic links, it gives me a new director=
y
> with a file in it... this file has the same name as the direcoty I was
> trying to link... but the direcotry created doesn't have the same content
> of the linked directory!


How are you calling this? Here's an example that might help:

You have a directory you want to link...

ljs@kontiki ~/foo
$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 ljs ljs 192 2005-09-30 08:19 bar

with some files in it...

ljs@kontiki ~/foo
$ ls -l bar
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file2

use the 'File.symlink' method to create the link...

ljs@kontiki ~/foo
$ ruby -e 'File.symlink("bar","baz")'

and the link is created.

ljs@kontiki ~/foo
$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 ljs ljs 192 2005-09-30 08:19 bar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ljs ljs 3 2005-09-30 08:23 baz -> bar

The original directory is there...

ljs@kontiki ~/foo
$ ls -l bar
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file2

and the new link points to it.

ljs@kontiki ~/foo
$ ls -lH baz
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file2

Create a new file under the link:

ljs@kontiki ~/foo
$ echo data > baz/new_file

and it goes into the orignal directory

ljs@kontiki ~/foo
$ ls -l bar
total 28
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:18 file2
-rw-r--r-- 1 ljs ljs 5 2005-09-30 08:23 new_file

file can be referenced from the orignal path

ljs@kontiki ~/foo
$ cat bar/new_file
data

It should also work the other way around.

Hope this was helpful and not overly long winded or pedantic. Also I hope
this pertains to your OS: This was run on Ubuntu Hoary.


--
Lou

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