[Liverpool] batch-edit symlinks

[Daniel Hulme]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:07:36PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Something like this should work, but I haven't tested it
> 
> find /some/path -type l | while read LINK; do
> 	TARGET=$(readlink $LINK)
> 	ln -sf "${LINK/old\/dir/new\/dir/}" "$TARGET"
> 	done
I spotted the deliberate mistake: the second-last line should read

ln -sf "${TARGET/old\/dir/new\/dir/}" "$LINK"

(that is, LINK and TARGET should be the other way around).

Thanks for the tip, Neil. I didn't know about the readlink command. I
thought I was going to have to resort to a Perl script -- probably a
one-line Perl script, but still more work than it needed to take.

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