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 ??

Thanks
Salah

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.

Thank you

Do you have a simple example of how this work ??

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:

antc
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