From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 09:31:12 +0300 Message-ID: References: <871qwjzqg5.fsf@web.de> <87o7zn65jp.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87ilpvd5s1.fsf@web.de> <87bkvn9x12.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87czg35n3g.fsf@web.de> <871qwif973.fsf@web.de> <87fskv9gm8.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87pmjxoev5.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6514"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-05-21) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 08:38:18 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nvvWD-0001W5-IP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 08:38:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54656 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nvvWC-0004Qo-1l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 02:38:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44308) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nvvUi-0004OR-Ru for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 02:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:56067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nvvUa-0006WD-89 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 02:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.5.63]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000087C5B.000000006295B748.00004D6F; Mon, 30 May 2022 23:35:51 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87pmjxoev5.fsf@dataswamp.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137472 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg [2022-05-28 18:30]: > Jean Louis wrote: > > > Let us say there are 100 websites, there is repository of > > pictures, videos, files on computer, but one part must be on > > websites too, then there is website repository on a local > > computer. Images and files are then linked to website > > repository on local computer in their corresponding > > locations, this saving space, then rsync uploads symlinks as > > real files to web server. > > > > In this case symlinks spare huge hard disk space. > > Actually a file (size F) and a symlink (size S and 0 < S) > takes F + S while just the file takes F. Don't know about those calculations. My symlinks point to PDF files and images, and the order of files in a website directory has to be replicated on one or more web servers. That is reason why I keep the order on local computer. Symlinks greatly help in that case, and do spare the hard disk space. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/