From 1a207ff3a88453a1f2d47db14203e3ad5a8369b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Lockszmith (@VAST)" <gal.szkolnik@vastdata.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:29:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix symclone to skip remove_ / *.tmpl extensions when testing
 existance

---
 symclone.sh | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/symclone.sh b/symclone.sh
index c762bb8..e25899b 100755
--- a/symclone.sh
+++ b/symclone.sh
@@ -57,11 +57,18 @@ relpath() {
 find "$SRC_DIR" -type f | while read -r file; do
     # Determine the relative path for the symlink
     target_file="${file#$SRC_DIR/}"
+    target_path="$DEST_DIR/${target_file}"
+    remove_target="${target_path%/*}/remove_$(<<<"${target_file##*/}" sed -Ee 's/^(symlink|executable)_//; s/(\.tmpl)$//;')"
     src_relative_path=$(relpath "$file" "$(dirname "$DEST_DIR/$target_file")")
 
     # Create the symlink with relative path
-    [ -L "$DEST_DIR/$target_file" ] || ! [ -e "$DEST_DIR/$target_file" ] \
-    && ln ${FORCE} -vs "$src_relative_path" "$DEST_DIR/$target_file"
+    SKIP=
+    
+    [ -z "$SKIP" ] && [ -e "${remove_target}" ] && SKIP="remove entry found for: %s" || true
+    [ -z "$SKIP" ] && [ -L "$target_path" ] && [ -z "$FORCE" ] && SKIP="can't force replace %s" || true
+    [ -z "$SKIP" ] && [ -e "$target_path" ] && SKIP="%s exists" || true
+    [ -n "$DBG" ] && [ -n "$SKIP" ] && printf "$SKIP\n"  "$target_path" || true
+    [ -n "$SKIP" ] || ln ${FORCE} -vs "$src_relative_path" "$target_path" || (set | grep -E '^(?:target|remove|src)_' >&2; false)
 done
 
 echo "Symbolic links created successfully in '$DEST_DIR'."