1ac3db7f3d267c2852d42da712976fe2d962809a
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  Mon Oct 9 13:03:50 2017 -0700
CIRM: allowing symlinks in the little webSync tool

diff --git src/utils/webSync src/utils/webSync
index b8c6942..5a8c7df 100755
--- src/utils/webSync
+++ src/utils/webSync
@@ -4,32 +4,34 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 from os.path import join, basename, dirname, isfile, isdir
 import string
 
 logDir = "webSyncLog"
 
 flagFname = join(logDir, "isRunning.flag")
 
 # ==== functions =====
 def parseArgs():
     " setup logging, parse command line arguments and options. -h shows auto-generated help page "
     parser = optparse.OptionParser("""usage: %prog [options] <url> - download from https server, using files.txt on their end to get the list of files
 
     To create files.txt on the remote end, run this command:
       du -ab > files.txt
-    Or preferably this command (empty directories will lead to transmit errors):
-      find . -type f -exec du -ab {} +
+    Or preferably this command (otherwise empty directories will lead to "transmit" errors):
+      find . -type f -exec du -ab {} + > files.txt
+    Or this one if you have symlinks:
+      find -L . -type f -exec du -Lab {} + > files.txt
 
     Then run this in the download directory:
       webSync https://there.org/
 
     This will create a "webSyncLog" directory in the current directory, compare
     https://there.org/files.txt with the files in the current directory,
     transfer the missing files and write the changes to webSync/transfer.log.
 
     The URL will be saved after the first run and is not necessary from then on. You can add
     cd xxx && webSync to your crontab. It will not start if it's already running (flagfile).
 
     Status files after a run:
     - webSyncLog/biggerHere.txt - list of files that are bigger here. These could be errors or OK.
     - webSyncLog/files.here.txt - the list of files here
     - webSyncLog/files.there.txt - the list of files there, current copy of https://there.org/files.txt