[nzlug] Any way to edit broken soft links?

[Peter Butler]

How about something like this:|

#!/bin/bash

dir='dir_containing_links'
target_dir='dir_containing_targets'

for i in `find $dir -type l`; do
 if [ ! -e $i ]; then
   new_name=$i.new # Do mangling to new name here
   echo $i is broken, changing to $new_name
   ln -fs $target_dir/$new_name $i
 fi
done

Cheers

Peter

|||
Raimund Eimann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 10 December 2007, Simon Green wrote:
>   
>> What's wrong with ln -fs <old> <new>?
>>     
>
> This simply creates a new link. I'm looking for something to edit the existing 
> link, because only a few characters have changed in the filename of the link 
> target (that's why the link is broken now). If there would be a way to edit 
> the "contents" of a link, I could simply change the characters in there as 
> well and the link would work again.
>
> Note: This is not about a single soft link. It's about several hundreds, maybe 
> thousands. I don't want to fix them all manually by removing old links and 
> creating new ones. I don't really believe that I'm the first person running 
> into this problem?
>
> Why all the original filenames have changed? Because umlaut characters were no 
> longer displayed properly and I needed to run a convmv to convert all files 
> in a large filesystem from a latin1 encoding into utf-8.
>
> Cheers,
> Raimund
>
>
> Today's wisdom:
> Suicidal twin kills sister by mistake!
>
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