linking to part of a file

[TheCoop]

is it possible to ln -s (or equiv.) a few lines of a file to a few lines of another file?

e.g.

file 1:

[phong]

There's no filesystem level way to do what you want (with ln for example), and I don't think there's any sort of general purpose way of doing anything quite like that... If it's something like a shell script, you could have those two lines in a third separate file, and "source" that file from the two original files. That could be similarly done with other scripting languages. You would have to edit that third file if you wanted to change or view those lines, but the scripts would execute almost as if they were in them.
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[TheCoop]

its a quake 3 config file, so i can share the player data but not the system settings between my windows and linux installations
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[phong]

That's definately a non-trivial task! I'm not familiar at all with Quake 3 config files, but if it were me, I'd write a perl or [insert scripting language of choice] script to copy in the appropriate lines from the config file on the windows box to the linux one, and run it before running Quake. Better yet, have the perl script run Quake after it's updated the config file. I think I would shrivel up and die if I didn't have a powerful scripting language at my fingertips at all times for exactly this sort of problem.
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