On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:55:13PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-02-10_10:12:03, Ken Irving wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:47:12AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 2009-02-10_12:56:53, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, > > > > to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a > > > > small home network with a laptop, and often I need to know what's on > > > > any particular machine that is not present at the moment. > > > > > > The -s option in cp makes it create soft links rather than a actual > > > copy of leaf files. You can use this to create a pure softlink copy > > > of whatever structure you are interested in, and then copy this to > > > the other computer. You will get on the other computer, the whole > > > structure with each actual file represented by a broken softlink. > > > > But the permissions would be not useful, with all bits set, e.g., > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 ken ken 27 2009-02-10 10:04 Quote.pdf -> ../Quote.pdf > > > > Seems like this might need another step to represent the permissions > > properly. > > It works fine if you are the same user number on the two machines. On > all my machines, I am user 1000, for example. If I were to install > a different distribution that starts user numbering at 500, things > would be a mess, unless someone on the list knows a trick...
I was thinking more of the permission bits than the user & group, since the permissions of the symlinks don't reflect those of the target files. Maybe that's not an issue, though (the OP seemed to be happy w/ your solution). -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
