toobigdatadoc: absolute paths only

[mahiki]

Change functionality to absolute paths instead of relative

• I can't understand why i chose relative paths
• git repos: direct to too* folders, assume these repos will move around and namespace collision rare
• regular directory: full path
• relative path means:
  • cannot move parent folder anywhere, broken link immediately
  • portable to other machines (this is so much less common)

Its much more rare to migrate machines than move folders around.

A better way is absolute path:

1. not portable to other machine, but a simple script can fix it:

for symlink in */**/*; do
   # '/Users/HomeFolder1/*' -> '/home/HomeFolder2/'
   unlink $symlink
   ln -s $symlink_new $symlink_location
done

TODO

TODO: change script functionality TODO: convert existing relative symlinks DONE: test if ~ can be used in symlink, this would solve migration problem

reminder about purpose of the toobigdatadoc script

I still want to keep my journal folder separate from arbitrary binary docs! Its just nicer.

The parallel file system is to separate binary files from text files

[mahiki]

Cannot use ~ in a symlink

Symlinks are strings, and no character expansion when evaluated.

ln -s '~/toodoc/desertislandutils/tests/toobigdatadoc' tilde-doc
l tilde-doc/
# ls: cannot access 'tilde-doc/': No such file or directory