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## NAME

dr_symlinks — maintain a symlink forest

## SYNOPSIS

dr_symlinks

## DESCRIPTION

For each pair directory/subdirectory under each word in DR_SL_TARGETS, a directory and symlink DR_SL_SOURCE/directory/symlink is created (or adjusted). The script is implemented as a wrapper around oggsymlinks, by Wessel Dankers.

## EXAMPLE

If, in the configuration file $HOME/.draai/symlinksrc, DR_SL_SOURCE is set to /srv/audio and DR_SL_TARGETS is set to "../data/a ../data/b", while directories
/srv/data/a/And_You_Will_Know_Us_By_the_Trail_of_Dead/Source_Tags_And_Codes/ /srv/data/a/And_You_Will_Know_Us_By_the_Trail_of_Dead/The_Century_of_Self/ /srv/data/a/John_Coltrane/A_Love_Supreme/ /srv/data/b/John_Coltrane/Giant_Steps/ /srv/data/b/Tinariwen/Amassakoul/
exist, the following directories holding the following symlinks will get created in /srv/audio/ :
And_You_Will_Know_Us_By_the_Trail_of_Dead/Source_Tags_And_Codes -> ../../../a/And_You_Will_Know_Us_By_the_Trail_of_Dead/Source_Tags_And_Codes/ And_You_Will_Know_Us_By_the_Trail_of_Dead/The_Century_of_Self -> ../../../a/And_You_Will_Know_Us_By_the_Trail_of_Dead/The_Century_of_Self/ John_Coltrane/A_Love_Supreme -> ../../../a/John_Coltrane/A_Love_Supreme/ John_Coltrane/Giant_Steps -> ../../../b/John_Coltrane/Giant_Steps/ Tinariwen/Amassakoul -> ../../../b/Tinariwen/Amassakoul/
All dangling symlinks and empty directories (if any) under /srv/audio/ will get removed. This script is idempotent.

## ANOTHER EXAMPLE

joostvb@hille:~% ls media/usb/audio/200504/Al_Green The_Very_Best_Of/ joostvb@hille:~% ls media/usb/audio/ 200504/ 200708/ 200801/ 200805/ 200807/ 200812/ 200910/ 201005/ 201009/ 200609/ 200712/ 200803/ 200806/ 200808/ 200905/ 201004/ 201006/ joostvb@hille:~% cat .draai/symlinksrc.usb DR_SL_SOURCE=~/media/audio DR_SL_TARGETS="$( cd $DR_SL_SOURCE && ls -d ../usb/audio/* )" joostvb@hille:~% DR_SL_RCFILE=.draai/symlinksrc.usb dr_symlinks joostvb@hille:~% ls -l media/audio/Al_Green total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 joostvb joostvb 48 2011-03-11 09:12 The_Very_Best_Of -> ../../usb/audio/200504/Al_Green/The_Very_Best_Of/

## ENVIRONMENT

dr_symlinks honors booleans: DR_SL_VERBOSE, DR_DEBUG and DR_DRYRUN and strings: DR_SL_RCFILE, DR_SL_TARGETS and DR_SL_SOURCE.

## FILES, CONFIGURATION

All configuration variables (see ENVIRONMENT) can be set in `~/.draai/symlinksrc`. This rc-file is sourced as a shell script. If DR_SL_RCFILE is set, its value is assumed to be the dr_symlinks rc-file.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This manpage is copyright 2009, 2011 Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx>. Draai is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with draai. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

## AUTHOR

Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx>