JerryHone gave you an excellent background pack of information; here's a practical (but perhaps clumsy, a sort of quick-and-dirty-and-don't-tell-your-mama) example.
One clumsy but an efficient way is to use softlinks (file or directory names pointint to the ACTUAL file or directory). This is now the best way for everyday use, but enough for one-time usage, or when your collection doesn't change a lot due time. Or when you don't want to start creating your own movie database :-)
1) create a dummy directory to act as the catalogue and cd do it
2) the next commnd should do it:
for example, find /videos /
Note the spaces around the dot\;
That should produce a nice set of soft links mentioned here earlier, pointing the here and there and wherevere your files actually are. If you need, you can keep this updated by running the find command (see above) from at or cron.
Uh, and for newbies I would recomment a very funny but still rather good guidebook titled "Unix for Dummies". It's a handy book, and once you have learder it from cover to cover you can either burn it, or laugh at its humor :-)
I want to make a symbolic link to a set of files in a particular directory if they exist. The number of files in the set is not known. The following script fails because it is ambigious.
if(-f dir1/*.a) then
ln -s dir1/*.a dir2/
endif
Can anyone help me?
Thanks a lot. (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a quick question with regards to creating symbolic links. Would creating a symbolic link from one directory to a file in another cause any issues for users that are currently logged into the box. I don't believe it will unless they are using the file in question, but I would like... (2 Replies)
hi,
How do i create a tar file of a directory excluding the links in that particular directory and its sub-directories.
The below command doesnt work for me.
tar -cvf abc.tar /dir1 --exclude"^l" (1 Reply)
i'm trying to write a c code to copy a soft link over to a specified directory. Is it possible to do this without using symlink()?
if so, what can I use?
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Hello,
Greetings!
please help me produce the following solution. I need
to produce one big matrix file from several files in different levels.
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there... (8 Replies)
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I want to add a sub-folder to to an existing structure: for example
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
burn
BURN(1) Burn BURN(1)NAME
burn - record from various sources to optical media (CD, DVD)
SYNOPSIS
burn MAIN_MODE [OPTIONS]... [FILE/S]...
burn --help
DESCRIPTION
CD-writing program/script. Features Data-CD, Audio-CD, Copy on the fly, Iso-CD.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration files for burn are: ~/.burnrc or /etc/burn.conf. You can edit them to change values.
If you don't have these files you can:
1. use burn-configure utility
2. take the configuration template, edit and copy it as ~/.burnrc or /etc/burn.conf
MAIN MODES -D, --data-cd
To create Data-CD
-I, --iso-cd
To create ISO-CD
-C, --copy-cd
To copy CDs
-A, --audio-cd
To create an audio CD from WAV, MP3 and ogg files
EXAMPLES
# burn -D -p /etc/
Creates a CD with /etc/ contents. (you will find files and directories contained in /etc in CD's root.)
# burn -D -p /home/bigpaul/video/summer_2003/spain.tar.gz
Creates a CD with spain.tar.gz in CD's root
# burn -D -r /etc/
Creates a CD containing the whole /etc/ directory. (-r preserves path)
# burn -D -c /mail_2003 /home/bigpaul/Mail -p /boot/vmli*
Creates a CD containing the whole /home/bigpaul/Mail renamed into /mail_2003. (-c changes path name). This command also adds in CD's root
every vmli* file in /boot/ directory
# burn -I -n image.iso
Burns image.iso
# burn -C
Copy CDs (disk at once).
# burn -A -a *.wav
Creates an Audio CD. Tracks come from wav files
# burn -A -a *.mp3
Creates an Audio CD. Tracks come from mp3 files
# burn -A -a *.ogg
Creates an Audio CD. Tracks come from Ogg Vorbis files
# burn -A -a *.mp3 file.ogg track01.wav
Creates an Audio CD preserving input order. In this example the first audio tracks will come from mp3 files, than we will find the one from
file.ogg and finally the one from track01.wav
GENERAL OPTIONS -s, --simulate
to perform a burn simulation
DATA-CD OPTIONS-p, --path
add file/s or path's content to CD-ROM's root. e.g.: -p /cvs/myproj/. In this example we will find CD-ROM's root filled with
/cvs/myproj/ contents, but no /cvs/myproj/ will be created
-r, --preserve-path
add file/s or path's content to CD-ROM preserving original path. e.g.: -r /cvs/myproj/. In this example we will find /cvs/myproj/
in CD-ROM's root
-x, --exclude-path
every file or directory matching this string will not be included
-c, --change-path
old_path will be named new_path in CD-ROM. e.g.: -c /my_home/2004_Jan/ /home/bigpaul/. Thus /home/bigpaul/ will be named
/my_home/2004_Jan/ in CD-ROM.
-l, --follow-symlink
this option allows burn to follow symbolic link directories
-m, --multisession
this option allows multisession CDs
ISO-CD OPTIONS-n, --name
image name
AUDIO-CD OPTIONS-a, --audio-file
mp3, ogg or wav file/s
AUTHOR
Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>, Gaetano Paolone <bigpaul@hacknight.org>
COPYRIGHT
This is free software: you may copy, modify, and/or distribute this work under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or
later as published by the Free Software Foundation. No warranty expressed or implied. See the source for details.
2009-07-22 BURN(1)