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

[Hans]

That is a good one! I have a feeling I'm going to use this one a lot, 
because it makes sense. Thanks! --Hans

Phil Mendelsohn wrote:

>>Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:15:23 +0200
>>From: Hans <hansfong at zonnet.nl>
>>Subject: [linux-audio-user] batch creation of symlinks
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>>I want to batch create symlinks in the main directory, of all the files
>>in subdirectories. E.g.
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>>$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
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>>I tried various shell thingies like:
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>>for i in *.mp3; do ln -s --target-directory=../ $i $i; done
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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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>You might find this useful.  (cp -s rocks!)
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>cd $TARGETDIR
>(any loop stuff)
>  cp -s $FROMDIR *.mp3 ./
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>Cheers,
>Phil
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