Couldn't this be done from Squeak?

Why go to an outside tool?

Honest questions, no offense intended?
Just trying to learn and understand.

Jimmie Houchin


Avi Bryant wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> 
>>For all you unix gurus out there -
>>I'd like to be able to have a simple script that will run through the
>>VMMaker platforms tree and make a parallel tree with links between the
>>two; the tricky extra is that I need to apply a trivial transform to the
>>filenames.
>>
>>i.e. /foo/bar/one.[c,h] needs to become /foo/bar/[c,h]/one
>>
> 
> This seems to do it, although you probably wanted something with a more
> widespread interpreter:
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> require 'find'
> 
> src = File.expand_path(ARGV[0])
> dest = File.expand_path(ARGV[1])
> 
> Find.find(src) do |srcfile|
>    destfile = srcfile.sub(src, dest)
>    if FileTest.directory?(srcfile)
> 	Dir.mkdir(destfile) unless FileTest.exists?(destfile)
>    elsif File.basename(srcfile) =~ /(.*)[.]([hc])/
> 	dir = File.dirname(destfile) + '/' + $2
> 	Dir.mkdir(dir) unless FileTest.exists?(dir)
> 	File.symlink(srcfile, dir + '/' + $1)
>    else
> 	File.symlink(srcfile, destfile)
>    end
> end