Symlink versioning

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Hi!

I have a qussation about Symlink and I need some help

How can I make Symlink pick up the last version in like this example?
A modeler publish
chair_geo_v01.usd,
chair_geo_v02.usd,
the publish code creates chair_geo.usd, a symlink to the latest version.

How I can do this in Houdini ??

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Salah
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If you are using python to drive your publishing mechanism checkout os.symlink [docs.python.org]

Or from a more traditional (linux) shell script there's the ln -s [www.unix.com] command.

Whether or not you call the above from Houdini or some external mechanism is a matter of choice, but it's certainly possible to run as part of a rop/top network if that's what you're using.
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Thank you

Do you have a simple example of how this work ??
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Assuming you just want the link in the same directory, and the current working directory is the directory where the files are located something like:

import os
src = 'chair_geo_v02.usd,'
dst = 'chair_geo.usd'
os.symlink(src, dst)
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Assuming you just want the link in the same directory, and the current working directory is the directory where the files are located something like:

import os
src = 'chair_geo_v02.usd,'
dst = 'chair_geo.usd'
os.symlink(src, dst)
how to read back? I use reference it error:no layer
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