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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Linux Symbolic Link Append Name Post 302704349 by jim mcnamara on Friday 21st of September 2012 11:58:43 AM
Old 09-21-2012
Allow me to point out something. Using zillions of symbolic links is fraught with problems. A simple one is that you use up files. Filesystems have data objects called inodes allocated to them. The number is fixed. So if you have 10000 inodes allocated, all of your directories, filename and link files use up one inode each.

To answer your question -
Note: You also seem to have a syntax error in your find statement.
consider NOT using a one liner, use a function instead:
Code:
# function make_links 
# usage make_links pathname linkname  linkhome [directory for the link to live in]
# so $1 is the serch path for find
#     $2 is the name to prepend to the link name
#     $3 is where the link will live
make_links()
{
   find "$1"  -type f -name '*.txt' |
   while read fname
   do
       # make sure we do not overwrite an existing link
       [ ! -L  ${3}/${2}${fname} ] &&   ln -s $fname  ${3}/${2}${fname}
   done 
   
}
# example usage
make_links /home/folder1  folder1_  $HOME
make_links /home/folder2  folder2_  $HOME

 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

build-jar-repository

BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1) 					   User Commands					   BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)

NAME

       build-jar-repository - create a symbolic link to a JAR

SYNOPSIS

       build-jar-repository [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... JAR

DESCRIPTION

       Build a JAR repository in the named directory by copying files or creating symbolic links

OPTIONS

       If no option is specified the default action will be to create symbolic links

       -c, --copy
	      copy files

       -h, --hard
	      create hard links

       -p, --preserve-naming
	      try  to  preserve  the  names  of  the original JAR files (in case of a nested hit the slashes in the path will still be replaced by
	      underscores)

	      using this option makes any future automated repository rebuild impossible, and implies -c unless specified otherwise

       -s, --soft, --symbolic
	      create symbolic links (default)

       --help
	      display help text

EXAMPLES

       build-jar-repository . jndi
	      will create a symbolic link to the JNDI JAR in the current working directory

       build-jar-repository -h /tmp oro
	      will create a hard link to the ORO JAR in /tmp

AUTHOR

       Written by Nicholas Mailhot and David Walluck

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs using JPackage Bugzilla (http://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla/)

build-jar-repository (jpackage-utils) 1.7.0			    March 2006						   BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)
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