The program in Example 9.6 recursively duplicates a directory tree, making a shadow forest full of symlinks pointing back at the real files.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w #
symirror - build spectral forest of symlinks use strict; use File::Find; use Cwd; my ($srcdir, $dstdir); my $cwd =
getcwd();
die "usage: $0 realdir mirrordir" unless @ARGV == 2; for (($srcdir, $dstdir) = @ARGV) { my $is_dir = -d; next if $is_dir; # cool if (defined ($is_dir)) { die "$0: $_ is not a directory\n"; } else { # be forgiving mkdir($dstdir, 07777) or die "can't mkdir $dstdir: $!"; } } continue { s#^(?!/)#$cwd/#; # fix relative paths } chdir $srcdir; find(\&wanted, '.'); sub wanted { my($dev, $ino, $mode) = lstat($_); my $name = $File::Find::name; $mode &= 07777; # preserve directory permissions $name =~ s!^\./!!; # correct name if (-d _) { # then make a real directory mkdir("$dstdir/$name", $mode) or die "can't mkdir $dstdir/$name: $!"; } else { # shadow everything else symlink("$srcdir/$name", "$dstdir/$name") or die "can't symlink $srcdir/$name to $dstdir/$name: $!"; } }