How do I move a linked file on Unix?
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I have a bunch of files in one directory and links to each one of those files in another directory. So looks something like this: Now I want to move those linked files from to . If I do that my simply calling , links will break. I don't want to re-link each file separately, cause there are hundreds…
Error Output
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rembol rembol 89 Jan 25 10:00 copyright.txt -> /home/rembol/solr/target/deploy/data/core/copyright.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 rembol rembol 92…
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The short version is that can't do this. You'll need to retarget the links on your own. I was going to offer a suggestion on how to do this, but there's already a really good answer to a similar question posted over on the Unix/Linux site.
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