add simple tool to substitute symlinks with their target file

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/resolve-symlink.py b/resolve-symlink.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import os
+import sys
+import shutil
+
+def resolve_symlinks(links):
+    for f in links:
+        try:
+            target = os.readlink(f)
+            if target[0] != '/':
+                # make absolute
+                target = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(f), target)
+            os.unlink(f)
+            shutil.move(target, f)
+        except OSError, err:
+            print "Failed: %s (%s)" % (f, err)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    resolve_symlinks(sys.argv[1:])