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for you remind users: ln .reminders...

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for you remind users: ln .reminders...

Submitted by Shane (not verified) on April 1, 2005 - 8:40am.

for you remind users:

ln .reminders reminders.txt

This is creating a hardlink to your .reminders file - you now have two ways to get at the same data, and any change to one will be reflected in the other.

Do this and you can append to reminders.txt and remind will work accordingly since it will find the same changes in .reminders (since it is the same exact file).

(For all you UNIX geeks (like myself) who ask “why not a symlink?” - Quicksilver doesn’t seem to like them and doesn’t register them in its catalog)

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Quicksilver: Append to a text file from _anywhere_ By: Merlin Mann (33 replies) September 4, 2004 - 5:43am
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