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I'm trying to organise my directories for different classes such that each of them has a todo folder.



something like this:



|--classes/

|  |--classOne/

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md

|  |--classTwo

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md

|  |--classThree

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md


I'm wondering if it's possible to have a folder called todo_buffer external to this hierarchy that can aggregate data from all of the individual todo folders.



It's possible to just create a small application, but is there a unix-utility that will allow me to do this? I was thinking along the line of symbolic links.






scripting symlink utilities







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  • If you're thinking about symbolic links, what have you tried so far?

    – roaima
    2 hours ago











  • I've only used symlinks in the context of ln -s, where i'm just soft linking two files and truncating their path. I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this, which is why I turned to SE

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I'm trying to organise my directories for different classes such that each of them has a todo folder.



something like this:



|--classes/

|  |--classOne/

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md

|  |--classTwo

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md

|  |--classThree

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md


I'm wondering if it's possible to have a folder called todo_buffer external to this hierarchy that can aggregate data from all of the individual todo folders.



It's possible to just create a small application, but is there a unix-utility that will allow me to do this? I was thinking along the line of symbolic links.






scripting symlink utilities







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  • If you're thinking about symbolic links, what have you tried so far?

    – roaima
    2 hours ago











  • I've only used symlinks in the context of ln -s, where i'm just soft linking two files and truncating their path. I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this, which is why I turned to SE

    – ZM-
    9 mins ago














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I'm trying to organise my directories for different classes such that each of them has a todo folder.



something like this:



|--classes/

|  |--classOne/

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md

|  |--classTwo

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md

|  |--classThree

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md


I'm wondering if it's possible to have a folder called todo_buffer external to this hierarchy that can aggregate data from all of the individual todo folders.



It's possible to just create a small application, but is there a unix-utility that will allow me to do this? I was thinking along the line of symbolic links.






scripting symlink utilities







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I'm trying to organise my directories for different classes such that each of them has a todo folder.



something like this:



|--classes/

|  |--classOne/

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md

|  |--classTwo

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md

|  |--classThree

|  |  |--todo/

|  |  |  |--read.pdf

|  |  |--otherFiles.md


I'm wondering if it's possible to have a folder called todo_buffer external to this hierarchy that can aggregate data from all of the individual todo folders.



It's possible to just create a small application, but is there a unix-utility that will allow me to do this? I was thinking along the line of symbolic links.






scripting symlink utilities




scripting symlink utilities






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  • If you're thinking about symbolic links, what have you tried so far?

    – roaima
    2 hours ago











  • I've only used symlinks in the context of ln -s, where i'm just soft linking two files and truncating their path. I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this, which is why I turned to SE

    – ZM-
    9 mins ago



















  • If you're thinking about symbolic links, what have you tried so far?

    – roaima
    2 hours ago











  • I've only used symlinks in the context of ln -s, where i'm just soft linking two files and truncating their path. I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this, which is why I turned to SE

    – ZM-
    9 mins ago

















If you're thinking about symbolic links, what have you tried so far?

– roaima
2 hours ago





If you're thinking about symbolic links, what have you tried so far?

– roaima
2 hours ago













I've only used symlinks in the context of ln -s, where i'm just soft linking two files and truncating their path. I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this, which is why I turned to SE

– ZM-
9 mins ago





I've only used symlinks in the context of ln -s, where i'm just soft linking two files and truncating their path. I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this, which is why I turned to SE

– ZM-
9 mins ago










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stow it will create the symlinks, and maintain them. You have to run it to get it to update. However you could use inotify-wait, to trigger an update.






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  • The next question would be how to get stow to only stow the files in the todo directories, and how to get inotify-wait to trigger that.

    – Kusalananda
    1 hour ago



















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Can you clarify your requirements and the context of your problem further?




  1. Would you use the "tool" to aggregate your todo_buffer folder AFTER you populated all the todo folders or BEFORE in order for you to more easily populate these todo folders?


  2. Would each individual todo folders contain similar filenames (as shown in your example) but with actual different content?



Symbolic links might be what you are looking for (yet I feel you would need to write a small script) but it really depends on what you want to exactly achieve.






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  • There may be similarly named files within the todo folder, but that's unlikely. Any recommendations for how to setup the symlinks? I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this.

    – ZM-
    10 mins ago











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stow it will create the symlinks, and maintain them. You have to run it to get it to update. However you could use inotify-wait, to trigger an update.






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  • The next question would be how to get stow to only stow the files in the todo directories, and how to get inotify-wait to trigger that.

    – Kusalananda
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stow it will create the symlinks, and maintain them. You have to run it to get it to update. However you could use inotify-wait, to trigger an update.






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  • The next question would be how to get stow to only stow the files in the todo directories, and how to get inotify-wait to trigger that.

    – Kusalananda
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stow it will create the symlinks, and maintain them. You have to run it to get it to update. However you could use inotify-wait, to trigger an update.






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stow it will create the symlinks, and maintain them. You have to run it to get it to update. However you could use inotify-wait, to trigger an update.







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  • The next question would be how to get stow to only stow the files in the todo directories, and how to get inotify-wait to trigger that.

    – Kusalananda
    1 hour ago



















  • The next question would be how to get stow to only stow the files in the todo directories, and how to get inotify-wait to trigger that.

    – Kusalananda
    1 hour ago

















The next question would be how to get stow to only stow the files in the todo directories, and how to get inotify-wait to trigger that.

– Kusalananda
1 hour ago





The next question would be how to get stow to only stow the files in the todo directories, and how to get inotify-wait to trigger that.

– Kusalananda
1 hour ago













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Can you clarify your requirements and the context of your problem further?




  1. Would you use the "tool" to aggregate your todo_buffer folder AFTER you populated all the todo folders or BEFORE in order for you to more easily populate these todo folders?


  2. Would each individual todo folders contain similar filenames (as shown in your example) but with actual different content?



Symbolic links might be what you are looking for (yet I feel you would need to write a small script) but it really depends on what you want to exactly achieve.






share|improve this answer








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  • There may be similarly named files within the todo folder, but that's unlikely. Any recommendations for how to setup the symlinks? I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this.

    – ZM-
    10 mins ago
















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Can you clarify your requirements and the context of your problem further?




  1. Would you use the "tool" to aggregate your todo_buffer folder AFTER you populated all the todo folders or BEFORE in order for you to more easily populate these todo folders?


  2. Would each individual todo folders contain similar filenames (as shown in your example) but with actual different content?



Symbolic links might be what you are looking for (yet I feel you would need to write a small script) but it really depends on what you want to exactly achieve.






share|improve this answer








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  • There may be similarly named files within the todo folder, but that's unlikely. Any recommendations for how to setup the symlinks? I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this.

    – ZM-
    10 mins ago














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Can you clarify your requirements and the context of your problem further?




  1. Would you use the "tool" to aggregate your todo_buffer folder AFTER you populated all the todo folders or BEFORE in order for you to more easily populate these todo folders?


  2. Would each individual todo folders contain similar filenames (as shown in your example) but with actual different content?



Symbolic links might be what you are looking for (yet I feel you would need to write a small script) but it really depends on what you want to exactly achieve.






share|improve this answer








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Can you clarify your requirements and the context of your problem further?




  1. Would you use the "tool" to aggregate your todo_buffer folder AFTER you populated all the todo folders or BEFORE in order for you to more easily populate these todo folders?


  2. Would each individual todo folders contain similar filenames (as shown in your example) but with actual different content?



Symbolic links might be what you are looking for (yet I feel you would need to write a small script) but it really depends on what you want to exactly achieve.







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  • There may be similarly named files within the todo folder, but that's unlikely. Any recommendations for how to setup the symlinks? I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this.

    – ZM-
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  • There may be similarly named files within the todo folder, but that's unlikely. Any recommendations for how to setup the symlinks? I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this.

    – ZM-
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There may be similarly named files within the todo folder, but that's unlikely. Any recommendations for how to setup the symlinks? I read the ln manpage, but couldn't figure out how I might achieve this.

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