Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time?

From	Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time?
Date	2013-04-24 06:42 -0400
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On 04/17/2013 02:23 PM, www wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have two real directories. I need to create 3rd directory and copy
> all the files from the two directories to the 3rd directory. Then I
> will create a soft link pointing to the 3rd directory. My program
> needs this soft link. The program will find its needed files in THE
> directory(the soft link directory).
>
> I am just wondering if I can skip creating 3rd directory and skip
> copying all the files from the two dirs into the 3rd directory(a lot
> of file copying, time consuming). Is that possible that I create a
> soft link pointing to the two directories at the same time? So the
> program will go into THE directory(superficially it is one directory,
> but in fact it is two directories).
>
> Thank you.
>

You could install unionfs-fuse, which allows two or more directories to 
be mounted at one point.

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may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? www <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-17 11:23 -0700
  Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2013-04-17 11:45 -0700
    Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-04-17 22:34 +0100
      Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2013-04-17 15:03 -0700
        Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2013-04-20 19:44 +0200
  Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-04-17 20:51 +0200
  Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-04-17 20:27 +0000
  Re: may i have a soft link poiting to two directories at the same time? Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid> - 2013-04-24 06:42 -0400

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