Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm glad it is working for you.

Note, however, that this is one of those broken shell scripts that can fail miserably if the directory name assigned to where or the string assigned to what contains any <space> or <tab> characters. To make your code is safe to run even under those conditions, please consider changing your code to:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#Variables
where='/mnt/xxxx/xxxxxx/Season_02/xx_xxx/Shots'
what='Render'

find "$where" -type d -name "$what" | while read -r path
do	ln -s "$path" "${path:53:14}_$what"
done

You might also want to ask yourself whether or not the 53 and 14 will remain constant if you change the value assigned to $where???

Yes. Thank you. I'll do that. I was thinking of adding some interactivity to the script for the 53:14 but it works so well, I only need to use it once per item.

The code is genius, works like a charm and saves me a lot of time already.


Thanks again!

Ok, here's a crazy question: Does anyone know how to do this on windoz that will produce windoz shortcuts?