> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 16:24:31 2003
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:22, Alan Connor wrote:
> /var, /etc and /usr/bin, things can get sticky regarding symlinks.
>
> If there's a little shell script that can handle multiple symlink
> redirection, I'm not smart enough to think of it...
>
Well. I'd start by using find to list all the symlinks that pointed to
another device
find /dir -type l > file
then I'd run ls -l on all of them to make a more useful list
while read line ; do ls -l $line >> newfile ; done < file
(yes, I know you can do both of those ops with find, but I really haven't
much practice with advanced find)
Now use grep to pick out the ones that point off-device
then rm those with the same basic syntax as above , use sed to write new
links, both from the newlist...
and write the new ones with the same syntax as above.
I really need some sleep right now, but this is not a hard script.
Alan
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