[K12OSN] Scripting help make link desktop to old home folder

[Krsnendu dasa]

Thanks. That did the trick. I made the link.

Thanks for the info about cp. I was wondering how to copy home directories
without the . files.

On 05/11/2007, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> Since all of the config stuff is in . files, copy all of the files over
> and that won't break the new configs.
>
> cp -arp <oldhome> <newhome>  assuming a mounted old home that is
> accessable to root.
>
> You can use:
> cd /home
> for name in `ls -1`
> do
> ln -s /<oldhome>/$name /home/$name/Desktop/Old_Files
> done
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:12 +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> > We migrated from K12ltsp to Feisty. It seemed cleaner (config files
> > etc) to make new home directories, give them a week or so to copy what
> > they want then delete the old one. We still have a backup if
> > necessary.
> >
> > On 05/11/2007, Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Why the new homes?  What was wrong with mounting old ones on
> >         the new server?
> >
> >         $USER  is the environment variable for the current user.
> >
> >         Peter
> >
> >         On 11/4/07, Krsnendu dasa <krsnendu108 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         > We have moved our users to a new server. We have created new
> >         home
> >         > directories for each user.
> >         > Users would like to access their previous home directories
> >         to access files.
> >         > Can someone help me with a script to create a link on the
> >         desktop to their
> >         > old files.
> >         >
> >         > I have the basic logic of it but don't know the commands.
> >         >
> >         > The script will be something like:
> >         >
> >         > For all users do this
> >         > ln -s /home/old/home/<username>
> >         > /home/<username>/desktop/oldhome
> >         >
> >         > Just need to figure out how to get the user name into the
> >         command and
> >         > recurse the usernames.
> >         > Probably the easiest way is to go through the /home
> >         directory and strip off
> >         > the /home/ part to get the username.
> >         >
> >         > Can anyone help me out? It seems simple in theory.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
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