[K12OSN] Scripting help make link desktop to old home folder

[James P. Kinney III]

Since all of the config stuff is in . files, copy all of the files over
and that won't break the new configs.

cp -arp <oldhome> <newhome>  assuming a mounted old home that is
accessable to root.

You can use:
cd /home
for name in `ls -1`
do
ln -s /<oldhome>/$name /home/$name/Desktop/Old_Files
done


On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:12 +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> We migrated from K12ltsp to Feisty. It seemed cleaner (config files
> etc) to make new home directories, give them a week or so to copy what
> they want then delete the old one. We still have a backup if
> necessary.
> 
> On 05/11/2007, Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Why the new homes?  What was wrong with mounting old ones on
>         the new server?
>         
>         $USER  is the environment variable for the current user.
>         
>         Peter
>         
>         On 11/4/07, Krsnendu dasa <krsnendu108 at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > We have moved our users to a new server. We have created new
>         home
>         > directories for each user.
>         > Users would like to access their previous home directories
>         to access files. 
>         > Can someone help me with a script to create a link on the
>         desktop to their
>         > old files.
>         >
>         > I have the basic logic of it but don't know the commands.
>         >
>         > The script will be something like: 
>         >
>         > For all users do this
>         > ln -s /home/old/home/<username>
>         > /home/<username>/desktop/oldhome
>         >
>         > Just need to figure out how to get the user name into the
>         command and
>         > recurse the usernames.
>         > Probably the easiest way is to go through the /home
>         directory and strip off
>         > the /home/ part to get the username.
>         >
>         > Can anyone help me out? It seems simple in theory. 
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
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