This is similar to xorg's lndir utility, but optimized for usage within nixpkgs.
Original motivation was to remove xorg.lndir from being in the symlinkJoin
trivial builder of nixpkgs. Since symlinkJoin is used in the bootstrapping
of stdenv, it creates a dependency on an additional 20-40 derivations
Differences from xorg's lndir include:
- Only dependencies are bash and gnu coreutils
- Symlink locations are all resolved to absolute paths
-silentis the default behavior-ignorelinks(deprecated) and-withrevifo(not relevant) are ignored<from dir>and<destination dir>must be defined<destination dir>will be created if doesn't already exist- If
<from dir>is a file, then just a symlink is created