From: Sakuro OZAWA Date: 2011-04-22T13:18:30+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:35850] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4189] FileUtils#ln_r Issue #4189 has been updated by Sakuro OZAWA. FYI X11 distribution has lndir command, it creates real directories and file symlinks though. ---------------------------------------- Feature #4189: FileUtils#ln_r http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4189 Author: Thomas Sawyer Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto Category: lib Target version: I wrote a method for FileUtils to do recursive hard linking. It works just like cp_r but links instead of copies. The code can be found along with the pull request I made to ruby/ruby on Github: http://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/4#issuecomment-631067 It's a pretty handy method for "staging" read-only files. For example I've used it to stage test fixture files in a tmp testing location and I've used it collect together a set of files for packaging into a tarball. -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org