Shell Scripts for making links unique or sole copies

Here are scripts to convert soft links to unique copies, and to sole copied (which moves the target of the link to the location of the link).

#!/bin/sh

# Check that link exists
ls "$1" > /dev/null
if test $? -eq 0
then
echo -n "File found. "
else
echo "Error: File not found."
exit 1
fi

linktarget=`find "$1" -printf "%l\0"`
linktargettype=`stat --format=%F "$linktarget"`

# Check that link target exists
if test -z "$linktarget"
then
  echo "Error: Null link target, not a valid soft link."
  exit 1
else
  echo -n "Found soft link. "
fi

# Check that link target is NOT a directory
#if test "$linktargettype" = "directory"
#  then
#    echo "Link to directory, skipping."
#    exit 0
#  else
#    echo "Not a directory."
#fi

# Remove soft link
echo -n "Unlinking $1... "
unlink "$1"
if test $? -eq 0
then
  echo "Done."
else
  echo "Error!"
  exit 1
fi

# Replace soft link with unique copy
echo "Creating copy from $1"
echo -n " to $linktarget... "
cp -a "$linktarget" "$1"
if test $? -eq 0
then
  echo "Done."
else
  echo "Error!"
  exit 1
fi


exit 0

Here's the same script for changing the link to the unique copy:

# Check that link exists
ls "$1" > /dev/null
if test $? -eq 0
then
echo -n "File found. "
else
echo "Error: File not found."
exit 1
fi

linktarget=`find "$1" -printf "%l\0"`
linktargettype=`stat --format=%F "$linktarget"`

# Check that link target exists
if test -z "$linktarget"
 then
   echo "Error: Null link target, not a valid soft link."
   exit 1
 else
   echo -n "Found soft link. "
fi

# Check that link target is NOT a directory
#if test "$linktargettype" = "directory"
#  then
#    echo "Link to directory, skipping."
#    exit 0
#  else
#    echo "Not a directory."
#fi

# Remove soft link
echo -n "Unlinking $1... "
unlink "$1"
if test $? -eq 0
 then
   echo "Done."
 else
   echo "Error!"
   exit 1
fi

# Replace soft link with only copy
echo "Moving $1"
echo -n " to $linktarget... "
mv "$linktarget" "$1"
if test $? -eq 0
 then
   echo "Done."
 else
   echo "Error!"
   exit 1
fi


exit 0