[opensuse] Re: Re: creating symlinks for all files in directory recursively in specified directory

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:17, Istvan Gabor wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:59:48 +0100 (CET), Yamaban wrote:

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On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:38, Istvan Gabor wrote:

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Hello:

I tried to summarize in the subject what I'd like to do:

I want to create symlinks for all the files within a folder recursively with the symlinks to be in one directory. For example:

Source dir:

source/dir1/a/file1 source/dir1/a/file2 source/dir1/a/file3 source/dir1/b/file4 source/dir1/b/file5 source/dir1/b/file6 source/file7

The target should be:

target/file1 -> source/dir1/a/file1 target/file2 -> source/dir1/a/file2 target/file3 -> source/dir1/a/file3 target/file4 -> source/dir1/b/file4 target/file5 -> source/dir1/b/file5 target/file6 -> source/dir1/b/file6 target/file7 -> source/file7

How could do it?

Thanks,

Istvan

classic (bash-)shell script would be somesthing like this:

# for each file found do link via xargs find $source_dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 ln -s -t $targed_dir

yes, you can do it in find itself via: -exec ln ... but I'm not firm enough with the syntax to sprout it here.

Thanks,

this does exactly what I want.

How should I modify it, or how could I do it, if I wanted to apply it only to files with specific extensions, eg all .doc files?

"man find" is the critical point here. the "-type f" e.g. is only true for regular files, for e.g. extensions the "-name '*.extension'" for case sensitive or "-iname '*.extension'" for case-insensitive is what you searchin for. for .doc and only lowercase .doc: find $source_dir -type f -name '*.doc' -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 ln -s -t $targed_dir for .doc, .DOC, or, to be precise: .[Dd][Oo][Cc]: find $source_dir -type f -iname '*.doc' -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 ln -s -t $targed_dir be aware of the quote-marks around the '*' to prevent shell interpretataion of the * . - Yamaban. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org