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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using links with wildcards in bash. Post 302351953 by cop02ia on Thursday 10th of September 2009 04:29:57 AM
Old 09-10-2009
Unfortunately no messages.
Probably because the wildcard (*) symbol was used, the softlinks were not created silently (no errors).
I found out from a different post (which was posted sometime ago) that it probably was caused by ambiguity.
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...-links-ln.html
so I'm wondering if someone could elaborate on this matter.


Sorry, my bad.
There was a wrong link created...
In my directory, instead of creating links to all the files, it created a file called:
"*" linking to "../../FtE/lib/*" OR "*.lib" linking to "../../FtE/lib/*.lib"

Here's how it looks with ls -lh:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 cad cad 24 Sep 11 2009 *.lib -> ../../FtE/lib/*.lib
Last edited by cop02ia; 09-10-2009 at 09:14 PM.. Reason: additional info. / correction
 

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lib300

libplot(3LIB)							Interface Libraries						     libplot(3LIB)

NAME

       libplot, lib300, lib300s, lib4014, lib450, libvt0 - graphics interface libraries

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag... ] file... -lplot [ library... ]
       #include <plot.h>

DESCRIPTION

       Functions in this library generate graphics output.

INTERFACES

       The  shared  object  libplot.so.1  provides  the  public interfaces defined below. See Intro(3) for additional information on shared object
       interfaces.

       arc			     box
       circle			     closepl
       closevt			     cont
       erase			     label
       line			     linemod
       move			     openpl
       openvt			     point
       space

FILES

       /usr/lib/libplot.so.1	   shared object

       /usr/lib/64/libplot.so.1    64-bit shared object

       /usr/lib/lib300.so.1	  shared object

       /usr/lib/64/lib300.so.1	  64-bit shared object

       /usr/lib/lib300s.so.1	   shared object

       /usr/lib/64/lib300s.so.1    64-bit shared object

       /usr/lib/lib4014.so.1	   shared object

       /usr/lib/64/lib4014.so.1    64-bit shared object

       /usr/lib/lib450.so.1	  shared object

       /usr/lib/64/lib450.so.1	  64-bit shared object

       /usr/lib/libvt0.so.1	  shared object

       /usr/lib/64/libvt0.so.1	  64-bit shared object

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsl (32-bit)		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |			     |SUNWcslx (64-bit) 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       pvs(1), Intro(3), attributes(5)

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