Creating symbolic links rather than copying
June 9, 2008, 7:22 pm
Filed under: Ubuntu
Filed under: Ubuntu
This drove me nuts for more than a short time, but if you’re interested in creating a whole bunch of symbolic links at any time, simply use the -s switch to the cp command – i.e.:
cp -s /media/MoreVideos/*.avi /media/Videos
would create a symlink in Videos to each .avi in MoreVideos.
Niiice.
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