Re: Automatic updating links?

From	davidson@freevolt.org
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Automatic updating links?
Date	2017-06-06 21:10 +0200
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2017, davidson@freevolt.org wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2017, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
>> 
>>> 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?
>
> Totally possible. Write a library of functions with functions that
> simultaneously
>
>  1. perform the hard link manipulations you need
>
>  2. update a database that tracks, for each media file, its
>     linked-locations.
>
> Then just use your new functions to manipulate your a/v media files.

Clarification/correction to above sentence: It's the *links* your
functions would primarily manipulate. not the files.

> Problem solved.

(Apologies for sounding so glib. In my defense, I was celebrating a
little, because I realised that I too might like to have the same
functionality OP has described, and it looks not difficult to
implement.)

>
>>> 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?
>> 
>> I'm making a musical mp3s library.  So I have, say, the following directory
>> tree:
>
>

Thread

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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