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Re: Automatic updating links?

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Automatic updating links?
Date 2017-06-06 20:00 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 06:41:03PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> But, I
> also need that, when renaming the target file, the link would automatically
> change its name so that it keeps equal to the target's name...  Is this
> possibile?

No.  Not without exhaustively searching the file system to find the
other links and rename them, and that would have to be something you
do manually, *not* automatically triggered by a rename.

What are you actually trying to do?

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Automatic updating links? Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 13:30 +0200
  Re: Automatic updating links? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-06-06 13:50 +0200
  Re: Automatic updating links? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-06-06 14:30 +0200
  Re: Automatic updating links? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-06 14:40 +0200
    Re: Automatic updating links? Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 19:50 +0200
      Re: Automatic updating links? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-06 20:00 +0200
        Re: Automatic updating links? Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 20:20 +0200
          Re: Automatic updating links? davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-06-06 20:50 +0200
            Re: Automatic updating links? davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-06-06 21:10 +0200
          Re: Automatic updating links? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-06-07 13:20 +0200
            Re: Automatic updating links? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-06-15 16:20 +0200
      Re: Automatic updating links? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-06 21:00 +0200
        Re: Automatic updating links? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2017-06-06 21:00 +0200
          Re: Automatic updating links? Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 21:50 +0200
      Re: Automatic updating links? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2017-06-06 21:00 +0200

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