Re: Program-invoking Symbolic Links?

[Eric Lammerts]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, John M Collins wrote:
> latest_version.tar => "tar cf - /latest/and/greatest"
> latest_version.tgz => "gzip -c latest_version"

> Such a scheme would let you implement things like hit counts on web
> sites "for free" without you having to rush out and run a CGI
> program as at present.

So you think this is too much work:

#!/bin/sh
echo Content-Type: application/x-tar
echo
tar cf - /latest/and/greatest

Seems to me you found a solution in search of a problem.

Eric
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