8 Jul
2006
8 Jul
'06
8:59 p.m.
--- Hans <hansfong(a)zonnet.nl> 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
with various variations, but it seems impossible to do it this way. What
is the right way to go about this? I know very little Python and some
bash scripting. I want to figure the solution out myself, so any
suggestions/hints related to Python/bash are more than welcome.
Cheers,
Hans
How about this?
for x in `find . -type f -name '*.mp3' -print`
do
b=`basename $x`
ln -s $x $b
done
Careful about the quotes, some are backquotes.
I didn't test it, it's just off the top of my head.
You might try it with "echo" before the ln command
just to see what it's going to do before you fire
it off for real.
-- steve
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