Question

Some servers only support ftp to upload files.

When I export the a project from my subversion repository to my windows machine, all (linux) symlinks are replaces by placeholder-files:

 link ../www_public/images 

after uploading the all exported files I now use

 find | xargs grep -P ^link 

to find all those placeholders. I then replace them with the actual symlink manually.

I would really like to automate this step with a shell-script.
How would I do this?

Note:
If there is a better / different solution to this problem, don’t hesitate to share it 🙂

Answer 1

Here’s one possible solution:

: grep -lr '^link' . | while read placeholderfile do   linkfile=`cut -c6- '$placeholderfile'`   ln -sf '$linkfile' '$placeholderfile' done 

edit: changed code above w.r.t. the comments below.