Automatically create symbolic links in Linux to files in one folder when a file in that folder is created and edited

Question

I have 2 folders on my Linux OS, Apache 2 Webserver. Call them folderA and folderB . They are have following paths

site1/public/sites/all/folderA

site2/public/sites/all/folderB

I would like that whenever a file is added/edited to folderA, a symlink is created/modified in folderB

Is there a way I can do it?

Any help would be appreciated.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 14 '10 at 13:56

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I would suggest incron or inotifytools. They will watch for file creation or other activity and take an action that you designate.

answered Sep 14 '10 at 13:56

Dennis Williamson

Agreed. With `incron`, make a rule that will look like `site1/public/sites/all/folderA IN_CREATE,IN_CLOSE_WRITE /path/to/your/script $@` where `$@` will contain the path to the created/modified file. Have a look at `man 5 incrontab` for more info. – raphink Sep 14 '10 at 14:43

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 14 '10 at 15:20

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folderB can be a symlink to folderA.

answered Sep 14 '10 at 15:20

Porch

I had one query. If I make folderB symlink to folderA and later add files to folderA, will newly added files to folderA after the symlink has been created be accessible via folderB too? – Loveleen Kaur Sep 15 '10 at 08:18
I checked, they will be..thanks anyways for the help! – Loveleen Kaur Sep 16 '10 at 04:02

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