On 07/18/2018 12:58 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I wonder if there is some file browser that would allow to select a number of files, and then create a hard-link of all of them in another directory.
I have tried dolphin, nautilus, thunar, gnome commander. Some offer creating soft-links, I want hard links this time.
Even Midnight Commander can't: it creates hard link only for the currently selected file only, and asks for destination name. Single file and prompt, so no use for this.
Nautilus, for instance, can create soft-links on the selection, but then can not select a bunch of files by pattern. I have to select all, then delete by pattern using something else.
Thunar can select by pattern, but not create links of any kind instead of copy.
No tool is complete yet?
Then Nautilus goes nuts, processing my directory that I'm trying to link, which is full of photos, doing the preview of a thousand photos. Both on the original and the copy.
Then tracker-store goes nuts as well, at 100% CPU. All my 4 cores are busy :-(
This is not about a GUI tool, but as you said that you have thousands of files, it probably doesn't matter. What about simply: $ cp -rl photos photos-hardlinked ? You could add the -v option to see the progress. Have a nice day, Berny