04-14-2009
Creating links to multiple folders
Hi All,
First of all, I'm a unix newbie so don't be to hard on me
![Smilie Smilie](https://www.unix.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
I'm not even sure if the thing that I want is even possible but here goes nothing:
On my linux based NAS I have the following structure:
videos
|---movie 1
|---movie 2
|---movie 3
|
USBDISK
|---videos
|--- movie 4
|--- movie 5
No I would really like, when I list "/videos" to show everything thats in the "/videos" folder PLUS everything that's in the "/USBDISK/videos" folder. No I'm kind of hoping that can be arranged with one soft link creation, but I don't think that's really possible. Another option would be to create a cronjob (I googled that term
![Smilie Smilie](https://www.unix.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
) which looks at "/USBDISK/videos" every hour or so and will create a symbolic link for each and every movie that's not linked to "/videos" at that point. But I don't know if that's possible either... and if it is I have NO clue how to.
I hope my question is a little clear and that someone can help me... if not... thanks for reading that kind of noob question!
Regards,
Kees.
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