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

Frank Barknecht wrote:

>Hallo,
>Hans hat gesagt: // Hans wrote:
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>>in the subdir, or
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>>for i in ./dir1/*.mp3; do ln -s $i $i;done
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>Almost, but you're trying to link a file on itself here ("$i->$i").
>Use this instead:
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>$ for i in ./dir1/*.mp3; do ln -s $i . ;done
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>or even more general:
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>$ for i in */* ; do ln -s $i . ; done
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>Ciao
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This I don't understand: so what does the "." stand for?

Hans

P.S. Almost forgot to thank you. This one works and is short too!
Received on Sun Jul 9 20:15:02 2006