How do you follow a symbolic link under a root?

Asked Jun 13 '22 at 15:38

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I am syncing two machines using Unison:

root = /home/luserface
root =  ssh://192.168.1.168/

I have a subdirectory "Foo" under that home, and it's a symbolic link. I have

follow = Path Foo

in my Unison profile, but that does not work; that Path doesn't reference Foo. What is the path I want here?

edited Jun 13 '22 at 19:28

Mike Pierce

asked Jun 13 '22 at 15:38

user1698584

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As long as Foo is located at /home/luserface/Foo like you say, I think this should work. Try replacing Path with Name. – Mike Pierce Jun 13 '22 at 18:58
Name and Regexp don't work, either. – user1698584 Jun 22 '22 at 00:08
Name did the trick here – Jortstek Oct 02 '22 at 12:12
TEST:
1013 mkdir TT 1014 touch TT/foo 1016 ln -s TT TL

follow = Name TL

RESULTS:

unison copies the other Paths there, but the output does not even mention "TL", and neither the link nor the target are copied.
– user1698584 Oct 03 '22 at 00:12

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