[Liverpool] batch-edit symlinks

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:24:32 +0000, Daniel Hulme wrote:

> To put it another way, I have a directory whose subdirectories contain
> symlinks all pointing to files under some second directory. For each of
> those symlinks, I want to replace the absolute path to that second
> directory with the path to a third directory. I want it to take less
> than o(n) effort on my part.

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


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Neil Bothwick

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