Unix (?) Dyndir

[delinquent]

I came across a command the other day that appears to cohere with the unix based languages, I'm guessing that it specifies a directory that is variable, but how would I go about using it?

Also, am I right in assuming that it is a unix command?

[epsy]

Never heard of it, google comes up with nothing and it isn't in my manpages. Can you explain the purpose of it better than this?

[delinquent]

Used to specify a variable folder/file path?

I really don't know, I was hoping someone here would. I came up stumped on google and scrub, and there's nothing on any of the geeky sites I sometimes trawl. It was just a fleeting glance, I saw it somewhere and thought it could be useful for things like music that is moved to another folder or drive but is still available in a library. I thought of implementing it in my arma server but I'm probably not skilled enough.

[nux]

Maybe you mean symdir? Some mix of symbolic link and directory, where when you move stuff around, you can place a symlink in the old place that points to the new place?

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n@ubuntu:~$ mkdir test
n@ubuntu:~$ touch test/bla
n@ubuntu:~$ ls test
bla
n@ubuntu:~$ mv test test2
n@ubuntu:~$ ln -s test2 test
n@ubuntu:~$ ls test
bla
n@ubuntu:~$ ls test2
bla
n@ubuntu:~$ rm test2/bla 
n@ubuntu:~$ ls test
n@ubuntu:~$