replace aliases with soft links for command line use [ Finder treats links and aliases the same? ]

replace-alias-with-link.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "fileutils"
include FileUtils

cd "/Users/venj" do
  Dir["*"].each do |dir|
    cd dir do
      Dir["*"].each do |al|
        path = "/Volumes/Data/#{dir}/#{al}"
        if !File.directory?(al) && File.directory?(path)
          rm al
          system "ln -s \"#{path}\" \"#{al}\""
        end
      end
    end
  end
end