Symbolic Links

Devlabel is a program which dynamically creates symbolic links to disk/partition names. It uses the disks and/or partitions unique identifiers to keep the symlink pointed to the correct location even if the underlying partitions name has changed. So, regardless of whether /dev/sdb6 becomes...

Starting from Windows Vista, Microsoft uses symbolic links and junction points of NTFS file system in order to make changes in the folders structure of Windows and keep the compatibility of applications written for older versions of Windows. This utility simply shows you a list of all symbolic...

This recipe makes it easy to create symbolic links on Unix variants. Links can be specified one by one, or in bulk. Various shortcuts are provided to avoid unnecessary repetition of source & target paths, etc.


Platforms: *nix

The ProtoNova Web Server features a scalable, stable, load-balanced server with symbolic links, aliases, virtual hosting, multiple server support, database driven logs, a remote module interface, SSL support, simple certificate generation, works out-of-the-box, is secure out-of-the-box, and has...


Platforms: Windows

SYNOPSIS Get the size for directory /etc/ with the block size of 1024 while following symbolic links: my $obj = File::Size->new( dir => /etc/, blocksize => 1024, followsymlinks => 1, humanreadable => 1 ); print $obj->getsize(), "n"; File::Size is used to get the size of files and...


Platforms: *nix

File::Spec::Link is a Perl extension for reading and resolving symbolic links. SYNOPSIS use File::Spec::Link; my $file = File::Spec::Link->linked($link); my $file = File::Spec::Link->resolve($link); my $dirname = File::Spec::Link->chopfile($file); my $newname =...


Platforms: *nix

SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. SymbolicLinker does this by adding a contextual menu item to the Finder that generates symbolic links to the selected files. The goal of this product is to...


Platforms: Mac

EyeTV2Alias is little Applescript to create symbolic links to your EyeTV Recordings. You could use this links to open the movies in another player for example VLC or you could use them to share the movies over the network to another mac, Windows PC, XboxMediaCenter or other MediaPlayer. (For...


Platforms: Mac

Check if your backups really work Hey there OS X user! Do you back up your files? Of course you do! (Right? Right???) But do your backups work? Really? Are you sure? Have you checked? Backup Bouncer is here to help keep the ugly backup tools out of the club. It's a command-line-based test suite...


Platforms: Mac

fotoalbum can be used to quickly view, organize, describe, tag, rotate, edit pictures and related files. It contains advanced features to search and find pictures, too. Big collections can be handled easily (mine has grown to about 9000 pictures now). You can export single pictures or groups of...


Platforms: *nix

nautilus-dropbox-script is a Nautilus script that helps to deal with Dropbox in Nautilus. Just select one or more files (directories) you want to sync with Dropbox, right click and select the script from the menu. It will create symbolic links in the Dropbox directory and will sync as you expect....


Platforms: *nix

Getting rosinstall Because it's used to install ROS software, rosinstall is a standalone program that you need to download. Get the latest version like so: wget --no-check-certificate http://ros.org/rosinstall -O ~/rosinstall chmod 755 ~/rosinstall Usage usage: rosinstall [OPTIONS]...


Platforms: *nix

"It's missing from Windows!" HSLAB Shutdown Folder is a utility which provides a service analogous to the Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP "Startup" folder. It launches applications, command files (*.bat,*.cmd) and symbolic links placed into a "Shutdown Folder" folder just before Windows shuts down.


Platforms: Windows

swpkg project is a collection of small tools based on a fairly simple philosophy and designed to simplify the management of third party software packages including their inter-dependencies. These tools cover every aspect of building, installing and maintaining software packages and include the...


Platforms: *nix

ClearCase::SyncTree is a Perl module that can synchronize a tree of files with a tree of elements. SYNOPSIS # Create a synctree object. my $sync = ClearCase::SyncTree->new; # Tell it where the files are coming from ... $sync->srcbase($sbase); # Tell it where theyre going to ......


Platforms: *nix

offmirror is a utility for mirroring a tree of files. Unlike other mirroring tools, it works offline and does not require a network or some kind of direct connect between the source and the destination. offmirror makes it possible to place all the data that is needed to synchronize a file tree...


Platforms: *nix

GoboLinux is a Linux distribution that breaks with the historical Unix directory hierarchy. Basically, this means that there are no directories such as /usr and /etc. The main idea of the alternative hierarchy is to store all files belonging to an application in its own separate subtree;...


Platforms: *nix

File::Wildcard is a Perl module for enhanced glob processing. SYNOPSIS use File::Wildcard; my $foo = File::Wildcard->new(path => "/home/me///core"); while (my $file = $foo->next) { unlink $file; } When looking at how various operating systems do filename wildcard expansion (globbing),...


Platforms: *nix

AMA Desktop Linux is a Linux Distribution for AMA Computer University. It aims to provide an interface that is comfortable to existing Microsoft Windows users. Whats New in This Release: AMA Desktop 2007 had many different exclusive applications and patches designed to make everything work...


Platforms: *nix

Dir::Purge is a Perl module to purge directories to a given number of files. SYNOPSIS perl -MDir::Purge -e purgedir (5, @ARGV) /spare/backups use Dir::Purge; purgedir ({keep => 5, strategy => "by_age", verbose => 1}, "/spare/backups"); use Dir::Purge qw(purgedir_by_age); purgedir_by_age...


Platforms: *nix