bguthy@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Bala S. Guthy) (03/17/90)
Lately I find myself doing things like %ls -ld /usr/prog and after finding that this is linked to /n/node1/bin, I'd do %ls -ld /n/node1/bin and so on... until I get to my destination directory/file. Is there some way to do this easily, may be a program that prints all the intermediate directories that are used in getting to a file, across nfs mounts and symbolic links. Thanks. Bala S. Guthy aktca bguthy@dip.eecs.umich.edu -- Bala S. Guthy aktca bguthy@dip.eecs.umich.edu
lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (03/17/90)
In article <1678@zipeecs.umich.edu> bguthy@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Bala S. Guthy) writes:
: Lately I find myself doing things like
: %ls -ld /usr/prog
:
: and after finding that this is linked to /n/node1/bin, I'd do
:
: %ls -ld /n/node1/bin
:
: and so on...
: until I get to my destination directory/file. Is there some way to
: do this easily, may be a program that prints all the intermediate directories
: that are used in getting to a file, across nfs mounts and symbolic links.
Ok, I just whipped up a little program called "sl" (for showlinks) that
does what you want, in a hopefully convenient format:
$ sl dts/libg/dts.h
dts/libg/dts.h:
dts/libg -> lib_incl_global
lib_incl_global/dts.h -> SRC/dts.h
SRC -> /u/dts/dts/lib_incl_global
/u/dts -> /u8/dts
/u8/dts/dts/lib_incl_global/dts.h
$ sl /usr/lib/news/compress
/usr/lib/news/compress:
/usr/lib/news -> ../local/lib/news
local/lib/news/compress -> /usr/ucb/compress
/usr/ucb/compress
$ sl D M P
D:
D -> src/dist/Todo
src -> /s/lwall/src
/s/lwall/src/dist/Todo
M:
M -> src/dist/mcon/Todo
src -> /s/lwall/src
/s/lwall/src/dist/mcon/Todo
P:
P -> src/patch/Todo
src -> /s/lwall/src
/s/lwall/src/patch/Todo
$ sl bin/makedist
bin/makedist:
bin -> vbin
vbin/makedist -> ../src/dist/kit/makedist
src -> /s/lwall/src
/s/lwall/src/dist/kit/makedist
$ sl /u/sfoc/lwall/bin/makedist
/u/sfoc/lwall/bin/makedist:
/u/sfoc -> /u4/sfoc
/u4/sfoc/lwall/bin -> vbin
vbin/makedist -> ../src/dist/kit/makedist
src -> /s/lwall/src
/s/lwall/src/dist/kit/makedist
It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an
exercise for the reader. :-)
Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
#!/bin/sh
: make a subdirectory, cd to it, and run this through sh.
echo 'If this kit is complete, "End of kit" will echo at the end'
echo Extracting sl
sed >sl <<'!STUFFY!FUNK!' -e 's/X//'
X#!/usr/bin/perl
X
Xdie "Usage: sl [filenames]\n" unless @ARGV;
X
X$| = 1;
Xchop($cwd = `pwd`) || die "Can't find current directory: $!\n" if $#ARGV > 0;
X
Xprint "\n";
Xforeach $name (@ARGV) {
X @indent = ();
X print "$name:\n";
X @path = split(m;/;, $name);
X if (@path && $path[0] eq '') {
X chdir '/';
X shift @path;
X print '/';
X $indent = 1;
X }
X while (@path) {
X $elem = shift @path;
X $new = readlink($elem);
X if (defined $new) {
X print "$elem -> $new\n";
X $new =~ s!^\./!!;
X unshift(@path,split(m;/;, $new));
X if (@path && $path[0] eq '') {
X chdir '/';
X shift @path;
X print '/';
X $indent = 1;
X @indents = ();
X }
X elsif (@path && @indents && $path[0] eq '..') {
X $indent = pop(@indents);
X chdir '..' || die "\n\nCan't chdir to ..: $!\n";;
X shift @path;
X print "\t" x ($indent / 8), ' ' x ($indent % 8);
X }
X else {
X print "\t" x ($indent / 8), ' ' x ($indent % 8);
X }
X }
X else {
X print $elem;
X push(@indents,$indent);
X $indent += length($elem) + 1;
X if (@path) {
X print '/';
X chdir $elem || die "\n\nCan't chdir to $elem: $!\n";;
X }
X }
X }
X print "\n\n";
X $indent = 0;
X chdir $cwd || die "Can't cd back: $!\n" if $cwd ne '';
X}
!STUFFY!FUNK!
echo ""
echo "End of kit"
: I do not append .signature, but someone might mail this.
exitevans@testmax.zk3.dec.com (Marc Evans) (03/20/90)
>Lately I find myself doing things like >%ls -ld /usr/prog > >and after finding that this is linked to /n/node1/bin, I'd do > >%ls -ld /n/node1/bin Many *ix systems provide a -L option to the ls command, which traces the link all of the way down (assuming that it can) to the actual file. Try using: % ls -ldL /usr/prog - Marc ========================================================================== Marc Evans - WB1GRH - evans@decvax.DEC.COM | Synergytics (603)893-8481 Unix/X-window Software Contractor | 3 Koper Ln, Pelham, NH 03076 ==========================================================================