SymbolicLinker is now compatible with macOS 10.12 (“Sierra”). The old CM plugin for macOS 10.5 and earlier users has been removed. If you’re still using a version of macOS prior to 10.6, then please download the previous release of SymbolicLinker. Global Nav Open Menu Global Nav Close Menu; Apple; Shopping Bag +. Aug 06, 2015 A symbolic link created at the command line allows a linked object in the file system to point to an original object in a different location. In this way, symbolic links behave much like an alias d. Nick Zitzmann SymbolicLinker 2.0 When Apple made the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, one of the under-the-hood consequences was that Mac aliases—tiny files that point to other files—lost some.
Create Hardlinks to Sync Folders with Google Drive
hardlink.c
| /*** |
| Synopsis: One of two viable options I have found to create hard-links of directories from other directories on your system directly to Google Drive has been hardlink.c (by Sam, @selkhateeb on Github) and a Mac OSX Application called SymbolicLinker. SymbolicLinker can be found at http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html as-well as http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/10433/symboliclinker. Now, you can sync specific folders to your Google Drive since that GDrive does not allow for actual symbolic links (ln -s) to create files that will be uploaded to the 'cloud'. |
| Application: hardlink |
| URL: https://github.com/selkhateeb/hardlink |
| Author: Sam (@selkhateeb) |
| Description: Allows for the user to create hardlinks of directories. |
| Installation: 1) make 2) sudo make install |
| Usage: hardlink /home/username/foldername/ /home/username/Documents/Cloud/foldername/ |
| ***/ |
| #include<unistd.h> |
| #include<stdio.h> |
| #include<string.h> |
| /* |
| On Mac OSX, we can't create hard links using the ln command.. |
| Install: |
| make |
| sudo make install |
| */ |
| intmain(int argc, char* argv[]) { |
| //Make sure we have the right arguments |
| if (argc != 3) |
| { |
| fprintf(stderr,'Usage:thardlink source destinationn'); |
| fprintf(stderr,'t hard links the source directory to the destinationn'); |
| fprintf(stderr,'thardlink -u destinationn'); |
| fprintf(stderr,'t unlinks the destination directoyn'); |
| return1; |
| } |
| int ret = 0; |
| if(strcmp(argv[1], '-u') 0) |
| { |
| ret = unlink(argv[2]); |
| } |
| else |
| ret = link(argv[1],argv[2]); |
| if (ret != 0) |
| perror('hardlink'); |
| return ret; |
| } |
Makefile
| OUTPUT=hardlink |
| C_FILES=hardlink.c |
| all: |
| gcc ${C_FILES} -o ${OUTPUT} |
| clean: |
| rm ${OUTPUT} |
| install: |
| cp ${OUTPUT} /usr/local/bin/ |
commented Oct 13, 2017
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Nice! As an alternative, you can also install the GNU coreutils and use gln -d: |
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