On 10/14/2005 9:27 AM Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Friday, October 14, 2005 08:39:04 -0700 Drew Tomlinson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's a good idea (and something else I never thought of) if I wanted
all the files, not just the *.jpg files. And as I'll explain below, I
intend to expand this script to work with additional directories where I
might just want the *.mp3 or the just the *.avi, *.mpg, etc. My thought
was to build a script and run it through cron to keep the symlinks
updated.
OK. Then I think you're going about it the wrong way.
This would accomplish what you want without having to do any string
manipulation, and without having to generate a list of files. The for
loop does all that for you.
for files in /my/dir/for/files/*.jpg
do
NEWFILES=`$files | cut -d'/' -f 6`
ln -s $files /new/dir/for/pics/$NEWFILES
done
But there is still one problem. This won't search recursively which is
why I was using find. However if I start with
"for files in `find /multimedia -iname "*.jpg" -print"
this would probably work. I'll try it and see. Or is there some other
(better) way to search for files recursively?
Thanks again,
Drew
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