symlinker-pro

Relative symlinks creator

Small tool that creates relative symlinks from given paths. A file containing a bunch of paths can also be given to create multiple symlinks in a single run.

Features

Relative reference from destination to source is automatically calculated from given paths
relative and absolute paths combination supported
Create bunch of symlinks from file content
Recursive symlinks using /* and /**

Demo

Installation

Option1: Using Composer

composer require "staempfli/symlinker-pro":"~1.0"

Option2: Downloading .phar

wget https://github.com/staempfli/symlinker-pro/releases/download/<version>/symlinker-pro.phar
chmod +x ./symlinker-pro.phar
sudo mv ./symlinker-pro.phar /usr/local/bin/symlinker-pro

Usage

2 possibilities:

Single symlink:

symlinker-pro create:link <source_path> <destination_path>

Multiple symlinks from file:

symlinker-pro create:from:file <file_path>

File paths content format

A symlink definition per line with => symbol to separate source_path and destination_path:

source_path=>destination_path
source_path2=>destination_path2
source_path3=>destination_path3

If your destination paths should be calculated from a different path than the current root, you can use --dest-prefix-path option when running create:from:file

Requirements

PHP >= 5.5

Developers

Juan Alonso

Licence

GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3)

staempfli / symlinker-pro

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