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synclib
A small Go tool for creating symbolic links
Created out of infuriating difficulty of creating symbolic links on windows
Custom syntax
The tool works with "instructions" that describe symbolic links
They are, in any form, <source>,<destination>,<force?>
For example:
sync this,that
It supports input of these instructions through:
- Stdin
echo "this,that" | sync
- Run arguments
sync this,that foo,bar "foo 2","C:/bar"
- Files
sync -f <file>- Where the file contains instructions, one instruction per line
- Directories
sync -r <directory>- This mode will look for "sync" files recursively in directories and run their instructions
Use case
I have a lot of folders (documents, projects, configurations) backed up via Seafile and to have the software using those folders find them at their usual location I'm creating soft symbolic links from the seafile drive to their original location
It would be problematic to have to redo all (or some part) of these symlinks when reinstalling the OS or having something somewhere explode (say software uninstalled) so I have all the instructions in sync files in individual folders in the seafile drive
Which means I can easily back up my configuration and sync -r ~/Seafile to symlink it where it belongs