can some one please help me with an example to list all the directories and
their soft-links.
Thanks,
Nagesh
2008/3/26 Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 26 мар, 07:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nag) wrote:
> >
> > I have a parent directory which contains nearly 10 soft-links to other
> > directories, the linked directory may also contain soft-links to other
> > directories.it goes on like that till the directory doesn't contain any
> > soft-links. How can I get the list of all these directories ? Thanks in
> > advance
>
> You can do opendir(), readdir() in the loop and test every entry with
> '-l' operator: if (-l $entry) {...}.
> perldoc -f -l
> Then you can recursively go through all detected linked dirs (test if
> they are dirs with '-d' operator). You may want to include a loop
> detection logic, so you don't cycle forever if there is a loop
>
> Do you necessarily need it in Perl? Consider calling 'find' if you are
> on Unix. 'man find' for options
>
> /sandy
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Thanks
Nagesh
