Symlinks already present

2020-07-26 Thread Termoregolato
There is any way to check if a directory is already symlinked, without controlling every symlink viewing the link? That is a bit time consuming, due I've two or three directory that can have a new symlink, but I've to check on a list of 20-3 symlinks to delete it and avoid duplicates... -

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-07-26 Thread Termoregolato
Il 26/07/20 15:19, Barry ha scritto: No. None. Sob :-) But thanks for confirm. Don’t you have control of the code that is adding the symlinks? No, so I must traverse the directories where symlinks are, to deduplicate them. There are some modes to minimize the work, but that way could be

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-07-27 Thread Termoregolato
Il 26/07/20 20:39, Dennis Lee Bieber ha scritto: Since symbolic links are essentially just short files containing the path to the eventual target file/directory, with an OS flag that the file is a link Yes, I use them massively to give to a lot of directories a kind of order, depending on the

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-07-27 Thread Termoregolato
Il 26/07/20 22:47, dn ha scritto: Thus, compare the results of the two calls to detect a difference. I will try also another way, If I don't err symlinks and original directory have the same inode number (I talk about Linux, where I'm using the application). I've a lot of directories like t

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-08-07 Thread Termoregolato
Il 28/07/20 00:19, Grant Edwards ha scritto: You err. I read it, I had to test. In effects, it was simple to test. me@debsrv:~/tmp/test$ ln -s /home/me/mydir aaa me@debsrv:~/tmp/test$ ln -s /home/me/mydir bbb me@debsrv:~/tmp/test$ ls aaa bbb me@debsrv:~/tmp/test$ stat --format=%i /home/me/

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-08-07 Thread Termoregolato
Il 28/07/20 02:50, Dennis Lee Bieber ha scritto: inode numbers apply for HARD LINKS Thanks -- Pastrano con un altro account -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-08-07 Thread Termoregolato
Il 27/07/20 20:37, Chris Angelico ha scritto: Unfortunately there's no real way to shortcut this if you just want to check one target directory. You'd still have to readlink() every symlink to try to find them. Sorry for 10 days of delay (hardware problems at home). Yes, that is. It's a mode

Regex to change multiple lines

2020-09-03 Thread Termoregolato
Hi. I've on file, containing multiple lines, and I need to change every occurrence of a sequence between two chars, in this case "%%". -- original This is the %%text that i must modify%%, on a line, %%but also on the others%% that are following I need to change to -- desidered This is the text

Re: Regex to change multiple lines

2020-09-03 Thread Termoregolato
Il 03/09/20 16:10, Termoregolato wrote: I need to change every occurrence of a sequence between two chars Thanks to all for your replies, it's time to learn regular expressions, but now I've some valid pointers from you. The work I must do here, to explain, is to get some mark

Re: Regex to change multiple lines

2020-09-04 Thread Termoregolato
Il 03/09/20 22:16, Chris Angelico ha scritto: Hmm. Have you considered using CSS to do this? Markdown is generally fairly easy to style with CSS. Yes, infact these are files where I'll insert a tag (in the example , to show the errors find at a second revision due they are of another kind, b