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creating multiple links with ln

I want to make a symbolic link to a set of files in a particular directory if they exist. The number of files in the set is not known. The following script fails because it is ambigious.

if(-f dir1/*.a) then
ln -s dir1/*.a dir2/
endif

Can anyone help me?

Thanks a lot.

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cd dir1
for file_name in `ls *.a`
do
ln -s $file_name dir2/$file_name
done

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