Ah, yes I see. Your assumptions are right. I do expect a long string to be returned from find, and I do need to extract characters from that long path and pass them to the ln command.
I'm using a bash shell on CentOS Linux.
That is good to know and will help us give you suggestions that will work in your environment IF you give us some representative sample data to use to verify that we understand what you're trying to do and to verify that the code we suggest will produce the results you want.
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I think that command is more like what I need. Find blablabla and create a symlink in this directory with a prefix of part of it's path.
The code seems to be you're trying to extract 14 characters from the pathnames find finds, but your sample data shows that you only expect to get 9 characters. We can't come up with any sample data that will trim the 14 characters you could extract from any pathname that would create the 9 characters shown in the sample output you say you want to produce.
And, as has already been said three times before in this thread, the find utility does not perform variable expansions on pathnames it outputs as -exec primary operands. The above find command will attempt to link each found pathname to the literal name {:53:14} blablabla. I'm sure that isn't what you want, but your refusal to give us a self-consistent description of what you're trying to do and your refusal to give us representative sample data that you will be processing leaves us confused and only able to make wild guesses at what you really want to do.
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The moderator put my desired results in "code," in the original post which made the post quite confusing. In my opinion.
Each folder needs the unique characters from it's path because each directory "blablabla" will have the exact same name.
The moderator who added the CODE tags to post #1 in this thread for you did not in any way add any confusion to what you had in your original post. Not having CODE tags makes leading and trailing <space> and <tab> characters disappear from view and coalesces sequences of <space> and <tab> characters in the middle of a line to single <space> characters. If you had had sequences of <space>s in your sample output, the CODE tags would have made that clear for us and then we might have been able to make sense of your sample output. Unfortunately, with or without the CODE tags, your sample desired output doesn't fit the description of the problem you say you're trying to solve.
Note also that this is the first time you've said anything about blablabla being a directory. There is nothing in your find command that restricts the pathnames it returns to be pathnames of directories. I have no idea whether or not this might cause you problems with the results your code will produce, but if it is a constraint on the output you want to produce, it would have been helpful to know this up front.
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I don't think the code suggested by nezabudka will work. I don't see it extracting characters :53:14 and piping them to ln.
Hopefully, I've cleared things up a bit.
Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately, you haven't.
I'm guessing that nezabudka has come closest to guessing at what you're trying to do, but her code won't quite work for you yet. Hopefully, it is close enough that you can work out the rest. If not, you MUST give some concrete actual sample pathnames that the find command I showed you in post #2 in this thread produces as output AND show us the exact ln commands you hope to produce from each of those sample pathnames.
Please help us help you.
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