The app is called SymbolicLinker, an appropriately named open-source utility for macOS. Though it’s a little tricky to install—in the sense that you should probably read the accompanying. SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin (for Puma through Leopard users) and software service (for Snow Leopard & later users) that, once installed, allows any user to Create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. SymbolicLinker does this by adding a contextual menu item to the Finder that generates symbolic links to the selected files. Synopsis: One of two viable options I have found to create hard-links of directories from other directories on your system directly to Google Drive has been hardlink.c (by Sam, @selkhateeb on Github) and a Mac OSX Application called SymbolicLinker.
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hardlink.c
Symboliclinker For Mac Os X
/*** |
Synopsis: One of two viable options I have found to create hard-links of directories from other directories on your system directly to Google Drive has been hardlink.c (by Sam, @selkhateeb on Github) and a Mac OSX Application called SymbolicLinker. SymbolicLinker can be found at http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html as-well as http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/10433/symboliclinker. Now, you can sync specific folders to your Google Drive since that GDrive does not allow for actual symbolic links (ln -s) to create files that will be uploaded to the 'cloud'. |
Application: hardlink |
URL: https://github.com/selkhateeb/hardlink |
Author: Sam (@selkhateeb) |
Description: Allows for the user to create hardlinks of directories. |
Installation: 1) make 2) sudo make install |
Usage: hardlink /home/username/foldername/ /home/username/Documents/Cloud/foldername/ |
***/ |
#include<unistd.h> |
#include<stdio.h> |
#include<string.h> |
/* |
On Mac OSX, we can't create hard links using the ln command.. |
Install: |
make |
sudo make install |
*/ |
intmain(int argc, char* argv[]) { |
//Make sure we have the right arguments |
if (argc != 3) |
{ |
fprintf(stderr,'Usage:thardlink source destinationn'); |
fprintf(stderr,'t hard links the source directory to the destinationn'); |
fprintf(stderr,'thardlink -u destinationn'); |
fprintf(stderr,'t unlinks the destination directoyn'); |
return1; |
} |
int ret = 0; |
if(strcmp(argv[1], '-u') 0) |
{ |
ret = unlink(argv[2]); |
} |
else |
ret = link(argv[1],argv[2]); |
if (ret != 0) |
perror('hardlink'); |
return ret; |
} |
Makefile
OUTPUT=hardlink |
C_FILES=hardlink.c |
all: |
gcc ${C_FILES} -o ${OUTPUT} |
clean: |
rm ${OUTPUT} |
install: |
cp ${OUTPUT} /usr/local/bin/ |
Symboliclinker Mac Sierra
commented Oct 13, 2017
Nice! As an alternative, you can also install the GNU coreutils and use gln -d : |
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