Turns all symlinks in a folder into hardlinks

symlink2hardlink.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -o nounset
set -o errexit
set -o pipefail

# Ensure hardlink exists
if ! [ $(hardlink --help &> /dev/null; echo $?) = "1" ]; then
    echo "hardlink command seems to be missing"
    echo "Please install it"
    exit 1
fi

for folder in $(ls -d ./*/ | sed 's/\/$//'); do
    # Skip non symlinks
    if ! readlink ${folder} &> /dev/null; then
        continue
    fi

    destination=$(readlink ${folder})
    echo "${folder} -> ${destination}"

    rm "${folder}"
    hardlink "${destination}" ${folder}
done