#!/bin/bash SRC=`pwd` DST="/usr/share/joe/syntax" #DST="/tmp/js" if [ "$UID" -ne 0 ]; then echo "You should run this as root. Else you may not have suitable rights to modify $DST." echo "If this is incorrect plz modify this script. Exit." exit 1 fi if [ ! -e $DST ]; then echo "The destination directory for JOEs syntax files does not exist: $DST" echo "Note that the default location is correct on Debian systems so plz modify this script for your system." exit 1 fi echo "This script will replace all *.jsf files from $DST (the 'originals')" echo "which exist in $SRC (the 'improved') too after backing them up" echo "with symlinks pointing to $SRC/ if not already done so." echo read -p "Do you want to continue? (y/n): " answer if [ "$answer" != "y" ]; then echo "You did not answer exactly with 'y', abort." exit 2 fi find $SRC -name "*.jsf" | while read file_src; do name=`basename $file_src` file_dst="$DST/$name" echo -n "$name: " if [ -h $file_dst ]; then echo "is already a symlink, skip." continue fi if [ -e $file_dst ]; then echo -n "backup to $file_dst.orig, " mv $file_dst "$file_dst.orig" fi echo "create symlink." ln -s $file_src $file_dst done