Just do def copy(src, dst): if os.path.islink(src): linkto = os.readlink(src) os.symlink(linkto, dst) else: shutil.copy(src,dst) shutil.copytree does something similar, but as senderle noted, it’s picky about copying only directories, not single files.
git status | grep typechange | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs git checkout
While symbolic links are a feature of the file system, aliases are a feature of OS X. I don’t know if they still use that technique, but back in the days of Mac OS Classic or even System 7, they were a file with just a resource fork which had a special resource telling the … Read more
Use the -d option: cp -d files /var/copylinktohere/ From man cp: -d same as –no-dereference –preserve=link –no-dereference never follow symbolic links
Use a script. If you have sh, bash or csh available, then you’re nearly as good as if you had an ssh access. If you don’t, then most other scripting languages allow you to create symbolic links on your server. For example, in PHP you would use the symlink() function: symlink(“myOriginalFileOrDirectory”, “mySymbolicLink”); I just had … Read more
In short, define the following environment variable: CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict According to Cygwin documentation: If set to winsymlinks:native or winsymlinks:nativestrict, Cygwin creates symlinks as native Windows symlinks on filesystems and OS versions supporting them. The difference between winsymlinks:native and winsymlinks:nativestrict is this: If the filesystem supports native symlinks and Cygwin fails to create a native symlink for … Read more
Here’s a solution that doesn’t require you to go back and fix commits. After all it may not be feasible if the repo is remote or shared. It uses core.symlinks=false. You said you tried this but did not say when. You must do it before a checkout, which a normal clone does by default. So … Read more
A common Python saying is that it’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission. While I’m not a fan of this statement in real life, it does apply in a lot of cases. Usually you want to avoid code that chains two system calls on the same file, because you never know what will happen to … Read more
No. You would have to symbolically link all the individual files. What you could do is to create a job to run periodically which basically removed all of the existing symbolic links in images_all, then re-create the links for all files from the three other directories, but it’s a bit of a kludge, something like … Read more
You could create the new link with a different name, then move it to replace the old link. ln -s /location/to/link linkname Later ln -s /location/to/link2 newlink mv newlink linkname If newlink and linkname are on the same physical device the mv should be atomic.