Question

I have the core code, which is the same for all projects, except one configuration file.
I can’t symlink to that dir because, this assumes that the config file will be also symlinked.

Is there a way in Linux/Bash to do that?
I thought to write a script which creates a usual directory, then symlinks all the contents (=files and dirs) from the core, and then, I can just create there the config file.

Not sure if that’s the best solution however.

Answer 1

mkdir someothersite && cd someothersite 
find /your/project -type f ! -name 'CONFIGFILE' -exec ln -s \{\} ./ \;

Note this works well if there are no subdirectories in /your/project directory. If there are subdirectories it’s much more complicated.

By the way, I’d use a VS for this. E.g. central repo, checkout, setup config…

HTH