On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Russ Wright wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 09:52 -0400, Eben King wrote:
>
>> Can you assume that the files in /home/something/public_html/ have no spaces
>> or other nasty characters? Probably not, but if so it's easy:
>>
>> for file in `find /home/something/public_html/` ; do
>> ln -s $file /var/codebase/$file
>> done
>>
>> If you want to trim off stuff from the beginning of $file bash's ${foo#bar}
>> construct comes in handy.
>>
>> If $file might contain special chars, it gets more complicated.
>>
>> find /home/something/public_html/ | while read file ; do
>> ln -s "$file" "/var/codebase/$file"
>> done
>>
>> maybe?
>
> I'll give this a try and let you know.
It might have "unexpected characteristics" with your data. I'd replace the
"ln" with an "echo ln" until you're sure it does what you want. Maybe pipe
the whole thing throgh "less" so you have time to read it too.
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