Finding OSX Aliases in a SMB/CIFS Share

Just a quick follow up to my previous post.

In case it wasn't obvious - if you want to find all those OSX alias files it's just a simple

grep -r XSym /path/to/smbshare/on/server


Updated:

If I had more of them I'd hack up a script to pull the path info out of them and create the symlinks automatically....


This is really hacky, but you can make symlinks out of alias files with it.
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read NAME && LINK=$(tail -n 2 $NAME | head -n 1) && rm -v $NAME && ln -sv "$LINK" "$NAME"