mklink.pl revision 68651
1272343Sngie#!/usr/local/bin/perl
2272343Sngie
3272343Sngie# mklink.pl
4272343Sngie
5272343Sngie# The first command line argument is a non-empty relative path
6272343Sngie# specifying the "from" directory.
7272343Sngie# Each other argument is a file name not containing / and
8272343Sngie# names a file in the current directory.
9272343Sngie#
10272343Sngie# For each of these files, we create in the "from" directory a link
11272343Sngie# of the same name pointing to the local file.
12272343Sngie#
13272343Sngie# We assume that the directory structure is a tree, i.e. that it does
14272343Sngie# not contain symbolic links and that the parent of / is never referenced.
15272343Sngie# Apart from this, this script should be able to handle even the most
16272343Sngie# pathological cases.
17272343Sngie
18272343Sngiemy $from = shift;
19272343Sngiemy @files = @ARGV;
20272343Sngie
21272343Sngiemy @from_path = split(/\//, $from);
22272343Sngiemy $pwd = `pwd`;
23272343Sngiechop($pwd);
24272343Sngiemy @pwd_path = split(/\//, $pwd);
25272343Sngie
26272343Sngiemy @to_path = ();
27272343Sngie
28272343Sngiemy $dirname;
29272343Sngieforeach $dirname (@from_path) {
30272343Sngie
31272343Sngie    # In this loop, @to_path always is a relative path from
32272343Sngie    # @pwd_path (interpreted is an absolute path) to the original pwd.
33272343Sngie
34272343Sngie    # At the end, @from_path (as a relative path from the original pwd)
35272343Sngie    # designates the same directory as the absolute path @pwd_path,
36272343Sngie    # which means that @to_path then is a path from there to the original pwd.
37272343Sngie
38272343Sngie    next if ($dirname eq "" || $dirname eq ".");
39272343Sngie
40272343Sngie    if ($dirname eq "..") {
41272343Sngie	@to_path = (pop(@pwd_path), @to_path);
42272343Sngie    } else {
43272343Sngie	@to_path = ("..", @to_path);
44272343Sngie	push(@pwd_path, $dirname);
45272343Sngie    }
46272343Sngie}
47272343Sngie
48272343Sngiemy $to = join('/', @to_path);
49272343Sngie
50272343Sngiemy $file;
51272343Sngieforeach $file (@files) {
52272343Sngie    my $err = "";
53272343Sngie    symlink("$to/$file", "$from/$file") or $err = " [$!]";
54272343Sngie    print $file . " => $from/$file$err\n";
55272343Sngie}
56272343Sngie