Re: [linux-audio-user] batch creation of symlinks

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:15:23 +0200
Hans <hansfong@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Maybe not entirely related to music, so forgive me for that. I have been
> busy with the following problem for sometime now and I can't seem to
> figure it out.
>
> I want to batch create symlinks in the main directory, of all the files
> in subdirectories. E.g.
>
> $ls
> dir1
> dir2
> dir3
> file1.mp3 -> .dir1/file1.mp3
> file2.mp3 -> .dir1/file2.mp3
> file3.mp3 -> .dir2/file3.mp3
> file4.mp3 -> .dir2/file4.mp3
> file5.mp3 -> .dir3/file5.mp3
> file6.mp3 -> .dir3/file6.mp3
>
> I tried various shell thingies like:
>
> for i in *.mp3; do ln -s --target-directory=../ $i $i; done
>
> in the subdir, or
>
> for i in ./dir1/*.mp3; do ln -s $i $i;done
>

find . -iname "foo.mp3" -exec ln -s \{\} ./ \;

Or something. This automatically takes care of whitespaces and other
hassles i think.

Flo

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