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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers can I create symbolic links for multiple files simultaneously Post 302499510 by ctsgnb on Thursday 24th of February 2011 01:45:01 PM
Old 02-24-2011
please give more clue about the Source and target directory as well as the filenames

Let's say you have a /target directory containing
Code:
pic1.jpg
pic2.jpg
pic3.jpg
pic4.jpg
...

and you want to create some links in /linksource
Code:
lnkpic1 pointing to pic1.jpg
lnkpic2 pointing to pic2.jpg
lnkpic3 pointing to pic3.jpg
lnkpic4 pointing to pic4.jpg
...

to create those lnkpic* link you can for example :
just

Code:
cd /linksource
for i in /target/pic*.jpg
do
t=${i##*/}
ln -s "$i" lnk"${t%.*}"
done

If what you want is something else for example, you want /linksource to be a link to /target so that if someone do cd /linksource, he goes to /target and can see the pic*.jpg,
then
Code:
ln -s /target /linksource


Last edited by ctsgnb; 02-24-2011 at 03:00 PM..
 

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pilot-foto(1)							    PILOT-LINK							     pilot-foto(1)

NAME
pilot-foto - Palm 'Foto' Image Installer/Remover/Fetcher/Converter SECTION
pilot-link: Userland conduits SYNOPSIS
pilot-foto [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-?|--help] [-q|--quiet] [--usage] [-d|--delete] [--delete-all] [-i|--install] [-l|--list] [-f|--fetch] [-F|--fetch-all] [-c|--convert] DESCRIPTION
This is a palm conduit to fetch, install, or remove, Foto files from a Palm. It can also convert *.jpg.pdb files that have already been fetched from the Palm to jpeg files. Delete all, or named fotos from handheld. Install one, or many jpeg images to handheld. List all jpeg files and thumbnails on handheld. Fetch all jpeg files, or certain ones by name. Tries to detect if a file really is a jpeg and refuses to install it, if it is not. pilot-foto allows you to do multiple operations in one sync. For instance, delete test.jpg and install test.jpg. USAGE
pilot-foto -p <port> [options] file OPTIONS
pilot-foto options -d, --delete Delete a jpg file on the handheld --delete-all Delete ALL jpg files on the handheld -i, --install Install a jpg file -l, --list List all photos and thumbnails -f, --fetch Fetch files from the Palm -F, --fetch-all Fetch ALL jpg files from the Palm -c, --convert convert [file].jpg.pdb files to jpg Conduit Options -p, --port port Use device file port to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pilot-foto will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are found or supplied, pilot-foto will print the usage information. -q, --quiet Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message -v, --version Display version of pilot-foto and exit without connecting. Help Options -h, --help Display the help synopsis for pilot-foto and exit without connecting. --usage Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting. EXAMPLES
Examples: pilot-foto -p /dev/pilot -f pilot-foto -d MyImage.jpg pilot-foto -i MyImage.jpg pilot-foto -i *.jpg pilot-foto -f MyImage pilot-foto -c MyImage.jpg.pdb PROBLEMS
Palm has not published their database format for the thumbnails. So, pilot-foto puts a generic penguin thumbnail for every image uploaded. Fotos can be accessed by a named list on the handheld as well as the thumbnails. This has been tried on a couple of handhelds. It is possi- ble that a foreign palm or different model will not like it. To get a thumbnail image you can copy the jpegs to the memory card. If you copy them back to the handheld they will have a new thumbnail that matches the jpeg. AUTHOR
This manual page was converted to XML by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk> BUGS
If a jpeg is installed with the same name as one already on the palm you will have 2 thumbnails pointing to the same jpeg. The new jpeg will overwrite the old jpeg. If the thumbnail fails to install then the jpeg should be removed. It is not. We have an online bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until they are resolved or closed. Reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very useful in terms of accountability. Please point your browser to http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there. COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. SEE ALSO
pilot-link(7) 0.12.5 Copyright 1996-2007 FSF pilot-foto(1)
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