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@ruari@velocipederider.com
2025-12-04 08:59:04

Sometimes it is handy to use archives formats that do not confuse our windows friends. Or perhaps you want a quick listing, or to update files without reading and writing the entire thing (i.e. non-solid archives).
Zip or 7z can be handy. The problem is that with their Windows hertitage they do not (reliably) retain certain UNIX-y 'things'. Be that permissions or symlinks.
Here is an example symlink workaround. Permissions left as an exercise for the reader:

@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2025-11-26 12:40:38

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@chrysn@chaos.social
2025-11-08 09:35:52

Is there a #UNIX style tool with which I can do any or all of (some are equivalent when combined with other tools):
* Turn absolute symlinks into relative ones or vice versa
* Increase or decrease the number of `../` segments in symlinks during/after copying/moving them
* Get me all a tree's symlinks in a text file so I can edit/sed them and turn them back into symlinks
* Full…