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Re: recursive FILE_SEARCH in a symbolic link ? [message #71368]

Thu, 17 June 2010 13:56

natha
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Registered: October 2007

Senior Member

I'm working in Linux...
What I mean is that I do not want a code that does not work in
Windows, that's all.

My symbolic links are links to directories created using the command
ln -s target link_name

nata

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Re: recursive FILE_SEARCH in a symbolic link ? [message #71372 is a reply to message #71368]

Thu, 17 June 2010 12:47

jdehls
Messages: 6
Registered: September 2008

Junior Member

On Jun 17, 12:28 pm, nata <bernat.puigdomen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a directory containing some symbolic links. When I try to do a
> recursive file search, IDL does not take into account the links.
> Do you know how can I do this search, through all the links ?
> I want to avoid Windows errors so I need an standard solution...
>
> Thanks in advance,
> nata

You say you are working in Windows? How did you create the symbolic
links? Are they symbolic links, hard links or directory junctions? I
think what you want to do is create directory junctions using the
mklink command.
http://www.maxi-pedia.com/mklink

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Re: recursive FILE_SEARCH in a symbolic link ? [message #71466 is a reply to message #71368]

Thu, 17 June 2010 18:03

Heinz Stege
Messages: 189
Registered: January 2003

Senior Member

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:56:33 -0700 (PDT), nata wrote:

> I'm working in Linux...
> What I mean is that I do not want a code that does not work in
> Windows, that's all.
>
> My symbolic links are links to directories created using the command
> ln -s target link_name
>
> nata

Hello nata,

I made a test on Windows. I created some links on a NTFS drive with
the cygwin ln-command:

$ ln text.txt hardlink_to_file.txt
$ ln -s text.txt softlink_to_file.txt
$ ln -s ../folder2 softlink_to_folder

And what shall I say, FILE_SEARCH finds them all. Here are the
results:

IDL> f=file_search('test\folder','*')
IDL> print,f,format='(a)'
test\folder\hardlink_to_file.txt
test\folder\softlink_to_file.txt.lnk
test\folder\softlink_to_folder.lnk
test\folder\test.txt
IDL> print,!version
{ x86 Win32 Windows Microsoft Windows 7.1.2 Oct 28 2009 32
64}

Note that Windows added the extension ".lnk" to the soft links.

HTH, Heinz

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