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<p class="MsoNormal">Well - the case here is that the file system has, let’s say, 100M files. Some percentage of these are sym-links to a location that’s not in this file system. I want a report of all these off file system links. However, not all of the sym-links
off file system are of interest, just some of them.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can’t say for sure where in the file system they are (and I don’t care).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Policy scan of symbolic links with contents?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Could you use the PATHNAME LIKE statement to limit the location to the files of interest?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Looking to craft a policy scan that pulls out symbolic links to a particular destination. For instance:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">file1.py -> /fs1/patha/pathb/file1.py (I want to include these)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">file2.py -> /fs2/patha/pathb/file2.py (exclude these)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The easy way would be to pull out all sym-links and just grep for the ones I want but was hoping for a more elegant solution…</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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