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gulp-sym
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[](https://travis-ci.org/soyuka/gulp-sym)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/soyuka/gulp-sym)
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[](https://david-dm.org/soyuka/gulp-sym)
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[](http://badge.fury.io/js/gulp-sym)
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[](https://codeclimate.com/github/soyuka/gulp-sym)
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[](https://codeclimate.com/github/soyuka/gulp-sym)
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> Gulp symlink module
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# Deprecation warning
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In favor of https://github.com/ben-eb/gulp-symlink See https://github.com/ben-eb/gulp-symlink/issues/15
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# Installation
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```
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npm install gulp-sym --save-dev {--production}
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```
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# Usage
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## Simple example
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```javascript
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var symlink = require('gulp-sym')
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gulp
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.src('source')
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.pipe(symlink('path/to/link'))
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//note that it'll return source streams not the symlink ones
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```
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## Advanced example
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```javascript
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var symlink = require('gulp-sym')
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, p = require('path')
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, File = require('gulp-util').File
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gulp
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.src(['path/**/to/some/dir/', '!path/example/to/some/dir'])
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//source is a vinyl instance
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.pipe(symlink(function(source) {
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//for example link source is my/dest/path/dirname where dirname matches the glob pattern
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return p.join('my/dest/path', source.relative.split(p.sep)[0])
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//you might also return a vinyl instance if you wanted a different cwd
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return new File({cwd: '/home', path: './symlink'})
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}, { force: true })) //use force option to replace existant
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```
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## Options
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- `force` (bool): force overwrite symlink
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- `relative` (bool): your link will be relative
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### /!\ Don't do this ...
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If you're working on more than 1 source, use a function or an array to specify the destination path so `gulp-sym` doesn't override the previous symlink!
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Here is a counterexample, `dest` will be a link to `source/path/two` and the first one will not have any symlink!
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```javascript
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gulp
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.src(['source/path/one', 'source/path/two'])
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.pipe(symlink('dest', {force: true})) //bad shit WILL happen
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```
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### ... but this
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That's how it should be:
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```javascript
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gulp
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.src(['source/path/one', 'source/path/two'])
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.pipe(symlink(['dest/one', 'dest/two']))
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```
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or through a function that'll be called on each source
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```javascript
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gulp
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.src(['source/path/one', 'source/path/two'])
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.pipe(symlink(function(source) {
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return p.resolve(source.path, '../../dest', p.basename(source.path))
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})
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```
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It's intendend behavior and api will not change for this, I could warn the user in this case - to be discussed.
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# Why?
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I'm aware that there is another [symlink](https://github.com/ben-eb/gulp-symlink) module for gulp but as of v0.1.0 it didn't fit my needs and seems to get messy (absolute/relative). In this plugin, `paths` are always absolute and resolves from the `cwd` that you might change by passing a [vinyl](https://github.com/wearefractal/vinyl) instance to the destination function.
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[gulp-symlink](https://github.com/ben-eb/gulp-symlink) :
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- has no force option to replace existing link
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- uses [fs.symlink twice](https://github.com/ben-eb/gulp-symlink/blob/master/index.js#L54) instead of using `fs.exists`. I'm aware of the nodejs docs specifying that `fs.exists` is there on an historical purpose only but why shouldn't we use it?
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- doesn't use the specified type option mentioned in the [nodejs docs](http://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_symlink_srcpath_dstpath_type_callback) (windows only)
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- has no test on symlinking directories (maybe why tests are good to go on windows)
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- has bad support on multiple sources (at the moment)
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# Licence
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MIT
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