Identifying "LN" type aliases
Identifying "LN" type aliases
- Subject: Identifying "LN" type aliases
- From: Brian Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:41:42 -0700 (PDT)
Hi all:
I have a script that walks a folder structure and does different things
with the file it finds there, depending on what they are. Plain old text
and binary files are not a problem, and I've learned to tell (old
fashioned) alias files and folders from their more substantial brethern,
but I'm really not sure how to tell if the 'file' whose name I got from
"list folder" is a link (made with "ln -s") or not. "Info for" seems to
treat it as the real mccoy (alias:false, type: and creator: codes
identical to the original..) but it's not.
So, how best to correctly identify
MacOS alias files and folders ("Info for" says "alias:true")
Unix 'alias' (LN) files and foldlers ??? (something with do shell
script and perl I suspect)
And, isn't there a distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' links?
Brian Johnson, Dept of Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle
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