[OT, unix] Looking for recursive soft linking incantation

Ted Wright batlist at adelphia.net
Fri Feb 8 21:50:17 UTC 2002


Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
>Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin at texoma.net> is claimed by the authorities to have written:
>> Couldn't this be done from Squeak?
>> 
>> Why go to an outside tool?
>
>It _could_ potentially be done by Squeak but the current system has no
>file linking capability. It is one of those little jobs that the basic
>OS stuff is well suited to and (current) Squeak is just barely suited
>to, so it is likely to be easier to use the OS scripting.

Wouldn't OSProcess work for that? Something like:

    OSProcess command: 'ln -s /foo/bar/whatever.c /foo/bar/c/whatever'

Ted




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