symbolic-link: Symlink tools

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Tools for working with symbolic links on POSIX systems.

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Dependencies	base (>=4.12.0.0 && <4.13), directory (>=1.3.3.0 && <1.4), unix (>=2.7.2.2 && <2.8), yaml (>=0.11.1.0 && <0.12) [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Author	Fuzz Leonard
Maintainer	fuzz@kt-22.com
Category	System
Home page	https://github.com/fuzz/symbolic-link
Source repo	head: git clone git@github.com:fuzz/symbolic-link.git this: git clone git@github.com:fuzz/symbolic-link.git(tag 0.1.0.2)
Uploaded	by fuzz at 2019-08-01T22:29:08Z
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SymbolicLink

SymbolicLink provides tools for working with symbolic links on POSIX systems.

The executable symlink changes to the user's home directory, reads in a sequence of source/target mappings from a YAML file in .symlinks and attempts to create them. If the target exists and is a symbolic link it will be removed and replaced, otherwise symlink will refuse to clobber it.

The function filePathExist works like System.Posix.Files.fileExist but does not follow the symlink, thus making it suitable for working with unreferenced symlinks. Unreferenced symlinks are not necessarily "broken"; one should not have to handle exceptions to work with them.