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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Soft link/file name problem Post 302281672 by otheus on Thursday 29th of January 2009 09:42:58 AM
Old 01-29-2009
Change the find command to call a script such as "makelink" which accepts two arguments, the origin path name and the destination dir.

Then, that script will handle the details, and looks something like this:
Code:
filepath=$1
file=${1##*/}   # works in ksh and bash. Otherwise use `basename $1`
dir=$2
while [ -f $dir/$file -o -L $dir/$file ]; do
   # TODO transform  $file here
done
ln -s $filepath $dir/$file

Now, I don't want to completely spoil it for you. How you do the TODO part isn't standard, but how you want to name your files. Do you want them to be numbered like in Window, or something like "file1.jpg" and "file2.jpg" or more exotic like "file0001.jpg" or maybe "file from vol1.jpg" ?
 

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pfsinhdrgen(1)						      General Commands Manual						    pfsinhdrgen(1)

NAME

       pfsinhdrgen - Create a pfs stream with different exposures defined by hdrgen script.

SYNOPSIS

       pfsinhdrgen <sample.hdrgen>

DESCRIPTION

       This  program  reads  files  defined  in  given	hdrgen script and outputs them in a PFS stream. Each frame has a tag BV with corresponding
       brightness value (APEX standard). Larger BV corresponds to less exposure (darker image), necessary to capture a bright scene.

       The generated PFS stream is to be used with photo-metric calibration software and with generators of HDR images.

       HDRGEN script file is a plain text file in  which  each	line  contains:  <path_to_an_image>  <inverse_of_exposure_time_in_seconds>  <aper-
       ture_size> <iso_speed> 0

       In  most  cases	it  is	convenient to use the jpeg2hdrgen program to create such a file automatically. In case it could not parse the exif
       information from jpeg files, it is necessary to create this file by hand. Below are the sample contents of such file:

       <--- cut here: sample.hdrgen /var/tmp/images/img08.jpg 4 2.8 100 0 /var/tmp/images/img09.jpg 58.8235 2.8  100  0  /var/tmp/images/img10.jpg
       76.9231 2.8 100 0 /var/tmp/images/img11.jpg 322.581 2.8 100 0 /var/tmp/images/img12.jpg 400 2.8 100 0 <--- cut here: sample.hdrgen

EXAMPLES

       pfsinhdrgen sample.hdrgen | pfsview

	      View exposures defined in sample.hdrgen script.

SEE ALSO

       jpeg2hdrgen(1) pfshdrcalibrate(1)

BUGS

       Please report bugs and comments on implementation to Grzegorz Krawczyk <gkrawczyk@users.sourceforge.net>.

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