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shtool mkshadow – GNU shtool create shadow tree using symlinks

Synopsis

shtool mkshadow [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-a|–all] src-dir dst-dir

Description

This command creates a shadow tree of src-dir under dst-dir by recreating the directory hierarchy of src-dir under dst-dir and by creating the files of src-dir by linking them into the corresponding directories under dst-dir via symbolic links. When src-dir can be reached via relative paths from dst-dir, relative symbolic links are used, too. This high-level functionality is originally designed for developers to create copies of source trees.

Options

The following command line options are available.

-v, –verbose

Display some processing information.

-t, –trace

Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.

-a, –all

Really shadow all files and directories in src-dir. Default is to skip CVS related files and directories, backup files, object files, etc.

Example

 # shell script

 shtool mkshadow -v -a . /tmp/shadow

History

The GNU shtool mkshadow command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse [at] engelschall.com> in 1998 for Apache. It was later revised and taken over into GNU shtool.

See Also

shtool(1), ln(1).