On 4:21:11 pm 06/13/05 "Rob Becker" [email protected] wrote:
I have a bunch of oggs in a partition called autotunes that are organized into directories by artist and then subdirectories by album. I am using ogg123 to play the files. As best I can tell, ogg123 does not have the ability to recursively select files from a nested directory structure. I need to have a symbolic link for each ogg appear in the /autotunes directory. I can get a list of all the oggs by just using locate *.ogg. I can dump that to a file with a redirection, but how can I use that file to create the symbolic links automatically? I assume that I'm needing to write a script to accomplish this task. I'm not at all familiar with perl, so I would prefer to use bash if possible. Does anyone have any pointers? I am somewhat familiar with bash scripting, but I'm a bit rusty so I could use a bit of a quick refresher if anyone has any links or advice to offer. Please don't suggest that I switch media players or anything of that sort. This is a music player for my car that has limited disk space that I want to conserve for the storage of the music. Thanks very much for any help you can offer. Have a great day. Rob
How about this, from the top level dir where you want the symbolic links:
find -type f | xargs -I '{}' ln -s {} .
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