Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi.

I have a folder which contains my application. I then have a flexible number of folders in another directory, called “sites”. It looks like this:

-Application
-- Test.html
-- CSS
--- Style.css

-Sites
--Site1
--Site2

I want to symlink all the files in the application folder into every folder found under the sites folder. So, the end result would look like this:

-Sites
--Site1
-- Test.html
-- CSS
--- Style.css
--Site2
-- Test.html
-- CSS
--- Style.css

So I think the first step is loop for all folders found in the Sites folder, then to execute a symlink on everything in the folder. I cant really code but from my reading something like this might be a starting point?

Code:

find . | xargs 'ln -s /Application/* /Sites'

Any help would be much appreciated.

You have something of the right idea, except, xargs is not a shell, and can't do shell statements(*, variables, etc) inside itself, just run a program. If you just read the lines into the shell instead, you can do whatever you want...

Code:

find ./* -type d |
while read LINE
do
        echo ln -s /absolute/path/to/files/* "$LINE"
done