[Cialug] Auto create link in a folder

[Scott Yates]

Maybe just a script that would just symlink all the files in the live
upload folder over to the test upload folder?

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> I have a live wordpress site and a staging wordpress site. I have a job
> that can periodically copy the live site over to staging to keep the test
> site relatively up to date. However, this site deals with large files and
> it is wasteful to keep a duplicate copy of them on the same drive.
>
> What I’d like to do is create a link for the files in the live site over
> to staging whenever it is created. I don’t care if the links are soft or
> hard. For example,
>
> If a file is created in /var/www/live/wp-content/uploads automatically
> create a link to it in /var/www/staging/wp-content/uploads.
>
> I can create a batch job that does this every so often, but is there an
> easy way to have it happen automatically? I seem to remember a service that
> will watch file for file modifications and do something on demand. That
> seems like an efficient way to do it. I was thinking the service was called
> iwatch or similar, but searching for that only shows me stuff about the
> Apple Watch.
>
> Here’s what I don’t want to do:
> I don’t want to symlink the uploads folder. I want to be able to upload
> files to staging without them going to live.
>
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