Usage

Arguments

Positional

1: Source Directory: The directory the symbolic links would point to
2: Target: The path to create symbolic link(s) in

Switches

• No Choice
  • Help: Print a reference manual
  • Verbose: Show more information (#Environment)
• Single-Choice: A value is necessary
  • Resolution: Configure how the symbolic links are resolved
  • Overwrites: Change overwrite behavior
• Dual-Choice: 2 individual values are accepted
  • Blend: Inherit access attributes of the parent
  • Occurrence: Filter files based on their appearance in the target

Tip

The switch's value can also be the 1st character of the word

Environment

SymP has 2 types of environment variables for each one it supports

1. Generic:
   • True values: true 1 yes
   • False values: false 0 no
2. SYMP_ prepended: The value is treated as true if this variable is set (with any value)

i.e., for a true value of the variable VERBOSE, you can either

1. Set VERBOSE to one of true 1 yes
2. Set SYMP_VERBOSE (value doesn't matter)

Individual

The environment variables accepted are:

• VERBOSE: Show more information (#Switch: Verbose)
• INTERACTIVE: Interactively confirm each overwrite (#Switch: Overwrites)