Feature request: option to have symlinks insted of hardlinks (--linkhard vs. "--linksyn")

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FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

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Feature request: option to have symlinks insted of hardlinks (--linkhard vs. "--linksyn") #51

Open sandrotosi opened 8 years ago

sandrotosi commented 8 years ago

From @sandrotosi on December 20, 2015 14:5

From sandro.tosi on January 19, 2014 23:07:22

Hello, this is Debian bug report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658339 ``` It would be nice if fdupes not only could hardlink dupes, but there would be an option to do the similar thing, but with symbolic links.


_Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/issues/detail?id=31_

_Copied from original issue: sandrotosi/fdupes-issues#10_

berlincount commented 8 years ago

Wasn't the --linkhard feature removed anyway? I still want it back, though.

jaakla commented 7 years ago

The --linkhard seems to be Debian-specific. I found this script as remedy (convert hardlinks to softlinks), so use this after using --linkhard. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/how-to-change-hardlinks-to-softlinks-797250/