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IThomas91
IThomas91

Reputation: 227

Gulp copy folder structure, but only symlink the files

I have a project with a certain folder structure and an other project which should be basically the same only some files are different.

I would like to write a gulp-task (or tasks) which are copying the first projects folder structure, but only create symlinks for the files, and don't overwrite files already in the other project.

I found out that I can create symlinks with gulp and vinyl-fs.

I tried to create a two step task. First, I tried to copy the folder structure, but I don't know how can I tell gulp that I only care about the folder structure.

Then second, I wanted to create a symlink task that is creating the symlinks in the correct directory.

Maybe, I could create it with only vinyl-fs's symlinks using a function parameter, but I can't find out how.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1689

Answers (1)

Arg0n
Arg0n

Reputation: 8423

It would seem you can do this to copy only folders (exclude *.*):

gulp
    .src(['base/path/**/*', '!base/path/**/*.*'])
    .pipe(gulp.dest('target'));

Assuming all your files have some kind of extension (e.g. *.jpg).

For the symlinks, doesn't the following work?:

var vfs = require('vinyl-fs');

...
vfs
    .src('base/path/**/*', { followSymlinks: false, nodir: true })
    .pipe(vfs.symlink('target'));
...

Upvotes: 3

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