On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:46:18PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> >> If there is already a list of dependencies, it should be easy.
> >> If not, then it might be tricky....
> >
> > Would it not be easy to create a shell/perl/python script that would
> > simply look for all the external file references and create a list
> > of full paths? Like:
> >
> > % lyx_file_includes foo.lyx
> > foo.lyx
> > img/bar.gif
> > misc/foo.fig
>
> These aren't full paths. They are relative ones.
Yeah, I meant "full list of paths" not "list of full paths".
> I think that it would be better if Mark created a sensible structure
> for his document. Eg,
>
> foo.lyx
> images/bar.gif
> biblio.bib
>
> Even if the bar.gif, biblio.bib were symolic links. Can 'tar' be
> convinced to copy the file pointed to my a sym link?
Yes. "tar -h" or "tar --dereference" (for GNU tar)
---Kayvan
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