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Efficient way to walk directory tree containing link cycles

Is there a more efficient way to walk a directory tree that contains link cycles than tracking which files have already been visited? For example consider walking a directory containing these files: symlink "parent" -> ".." symlink "uh_oh" ->…
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How to use symlinks with PHP and Nginx (or Lighttpd)?

I've installed Nginx + FPM-PHP under Debian and ArchLinux. Both are working fine. However, I can't figure out how to get the PHP part to follow symlinks. I've also tried with Lighttpd, but to no avail. Here is what I want to do: Root directory…
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Resolving all symbolic links in NSURL

I'm writing a little piece of code in which I should detect if an NSURL contains a symbolic link (i.e., symbolic file components other than the last one should also be detected). To do this, I confront the NSURL itself with the NSURL returned by…
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How do i get the following code to recognize a symlink?

#!/usr/bin/env python3.2 import os import sys fileList = [] rootdir = sys.argv[1] for subdir, dirs, files in os.walk(rootdir, followlinks=True): for file in files: f = os.path.join(subdir,file) if os.path.islink(file): …
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How do you list all symlinks in a directory that has non-hanging links?

I would like to get a list of all symlinks within a directory that has valid links. In other words, I would like all the broken links to be discarded in my list.
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Symlinks not working from Explorer but work fine from cmd shell

I'm seeing a weird behaviour for one user in a network. They cannot follow some symlinks we have configured on the file server. If I open a command shell I can open the symlinked folder without problems. I can also cd into the folder and everything…
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How to create a symbolic link or hard link to another symbolic link?

For example, I create a link ln -s /mytarget /mylink (where mytarget is a directory). Now I would like to create a link to /mylink, i.e., ln -s /mylink /mylinkother. The first link mylink works fine, but the second link mylinkother does not…
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Bash Script Not allowing special symbols in zipping a file

I am actually creating a zip file based on a pdf file that I have downloaded through java code, so the problem statement is like this. I have a pdf file with special symbols = (wallbay)+1-50 m+ ipad+i pho ne%watch.pdf Now I want this file to be…
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Cygwin: follow symlinks with MinGW fopen/etc

Problem: I'm writing some code that is portable to Linux and Cygwin (compiled on msys), and the handling of symlinks is different. On Cygwin, if I create a symlink in the normal way, with a default Cygwin shell (ie. the CYGWIN envvar not set): $ ln…
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How to create symlinks in laravel for a directory to a external link

I want to create symlinks for my laravel site media link from `/public/uploads/*` to a link `abc.com/public/uploads/*` For example, I have a site abc.com There an image with media url : abc.com/apple.jpg And i have s3 spaces where My apple.jpg…
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Create symlinks for directories that don't exist - Windows

I got this as my main directory. └───etc_core └───modules_core ├───core_module_1 ├───core_module_2 └───core_module_3 I got another directory with the same structure, but with different modules. └───etc_custom …
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Windows command line dectect if there is SymLink folder in path

There are here a few solutions to detect if a given folder is a Symbolic Link... but how to detect if one of the folders in path is a SymLink... not only the immediate parent... but any ancestor folder ??? for example, in the…
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How to move up a level from an symbolic link in OSX

I've created a symbolic link to my WordPress theme root from my system root - so in / I have mytheme -> /Applications/MAMP/htdocs-wordpress/wp-content/themes/mytheme I use this all the time to quickly get to my theme root in Terminal. But I very…
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How to make Mercurial detect changes made to the target of a symlink

I have a project version-controlled by the Mercurial (project main). The project references (uses) some files from another project (sub) by a symbolic link in the main pointing to a file in sub. The symbolic link is added to the main's…
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Traverse subdirectores and symlink certain files (but not all)

I have following directory structure that I pull from github; dotfiles/bash .bashrc .bash_profile .some_other env dotfiles/tmux/ .tmux.conf dotfiles/???/ .whatever bash/In my bashcode (below) I'd like to (in my script…
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