[Krename-users] Feature request: relative links
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From: Kai H. <hfm...@gm...> - 2014-10-09 20:38:41
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Hi, I'd like to request a feature: as you know, the tool has a function to create symbolic links. The shell command "ln" has a function to create relative symbolic links: it's "ln -s -r". But that works only with one file per shell command – if you want to make many symbolic links of this type, it can be a bit annoying. "cp" hasn't a function for that, too. It would be great, if there would be a possibility to use that option in krename. I think, it shouldn't be a problem, because krename uses "ln" to create symbolic links, as I suppose. In addition, to create many symbolic links with a graphical tool is much more comfortable than to do that task with a shell command. For what purpose may that? In some cases, you want to copy a directory structure (which include symbolic links) to a portable storage medium, e. g. an USB flash drive or CD/DVD. Then, you must use relative symbolic links, because the path isn't the same on the portable medium as on your local file system. I had that situation with music files that I made from YouTube-Videos. There were videos files from the same singers in different YouTube channels, and on the other side, in some YouTube channels were videos from different singers. So, I saved that in directories that are named after the YouTube channels, but I want that sort secondly after the singers. Thus, I had to use relative links, if I want to copy that directory structure on a portable storage medium and copy that then to another computer. I would be very happy if you could a such feature to krename. Kai |