Renaming parent directory of a directory that has symbolic links pointed to
I have created x number of symbolic links (ln -s path file) to a directory named templates that lives within mytheme directory. I would like to rename the theme folder but don't know the consequence of this with the symbolic links I've created previously. I have roughly about 50. What would happen to them? Do they just die and would need re-doing one by one or is there a quick way? Here is the structure:
themes
mytheme
templates
...
_theme-x1
templates //symbolic link
_theme-x2
templates //symbolic link
....
_theme-x50
templates //symbolic link
symlink
asked Dec 12 at 12:48
Abdul Sadik Yalcin
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I have created x number of symbolic links (ln -s path file) to a directory named templates that lives within mytheme directory. I would like to rename the theme folder but don't know the consequence of this with the symbolic links I've created previously. I have roughly about 50. What would happen to them? Do they just die and would need re-doing one by one or is there a quick way? Here is the structure:
themes
mytheme
templates
...
_theme-x1
templates //symbolic link
_theme-x2
templates //symbolic link
....
_theme-x50
templates //symbolic link
symlink
asked Dec 12 at 12:48
Abdul Sadik Yalcin
1062
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I have created x number of symbolic links (ln -s path file) to a directory named templates that lives within mytheme directory. I would like to rename the theme folder but don't know the consequence of this with the symbolic links I've created previously. I have roughly about 50. What would happen to them? Do they just die and would need re-doing one by one or is there a quick way? Here is the structure:
themes
mytheme
templates
...
_theme-x1
templates //symbolic link
_theme-x2
templates //symbolic link
....
_theme-x50
templates //symbolic link
symlink
asked Dec 12 at 12:48
Abdul Sadik Yalcin
1062
I have created x number of symbolic links (ln -s path file) to a directory named templates that lives within mytheme directory. I would like to rename the theme folder but don't know the consequence of this with the symbolic links I've created previously. I have roughly about 50. What would happen to them? Do they just die and would need re-doing one by one or is there a quick way? Here is the structure:
themes
mytheme
templates
...
_theme-x1
templates //symbolic link
_theme-x2
templates //symbolic link
....
_theme-x50
templates //symbolic link
symlink
symlink
asked Dec 12 at 12:48
Abdul Sadik Yalcin
1062
asked Dec 12 at 12:48
Abdul Sadik Yalcin
1062
edited Dec 12 at 13:41
asked Dec 12 at 12:48
Abdul Sadik Yalcin
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asked Dec 12 at 12:48
Abdul Sadik Yalcin
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asked Dec 12 at 12:48
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You'll have to redo all the links...
If the templates is common to all maybe you should put it in a themes/common directory and have all the themes link to it.
for theme in *; do cd "$theme" ; rm templates ; ln -s ../common/templates . ; cd - ; done
answered Dec 12 at 13:29
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You'll have to redo all the links...
If the templates is common to all maybe you should put it in a themes/common directory and have all the themes link to it.
for theme in *; do cd "$theme" ; rm templates ; ln -s ../common/templates . ; cd - ; done
answered Dec 12 at 13:29
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You'll have to redo all the links...
If the templates is common to all maybe you should put it in a themes/common directory and have all the themes link to it.
for theme in *; do cd "$theme" ; rm templates ; ln -s ../common/templates . ; cd - ; done
answered Dec 12 at 13:29
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You'll have to redo all the links...
If the templates is common to all maybe you should put it in a themes/common directory and have all the themes link to it.
for theme in *; do cd "$theme" ; rm templates ; ln -s ../common/templates . ; cd - ; done
answered Dec 12 at 13:29
xenoid
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You'll have to redo all the links...
If the templates is common to all maybe you should put it in a themes/common directory and have all the themes link to it.
for theme in *; do cd "$theme" ; rm templates ; ln -s ../common/templates . ; cd - ; done
answered Dec 12 at 13:29
xenoid
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answered Dec 12 at 13:29
xenoid
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answered Dec 12 at 13:29
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