I want to link ( ln -s ) all files that are in /mnt/usr/lib/ into /usr/lib/
There are lots of file, how to do it fast? :)
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A:
ln -s /mnt/usr/lib/* /usr/lib/
I guess, this belongs to superuser, though.
HTH, flokra
flokra
2009-08-28 13:52:55
This does not include hidden files, and it links whole directories. If either of these is not what you want, see my answer. Otherwise, it's the shortest way.
Jefromi
2009-08-28 14:17:20
You're right. But libraries aren't hidden usually. In any case dotfiles are involved your solution comes in more handy.
flokra
2009-08-28 14:33:00
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A:
The posted solutions will not link any hidden files. To include them, try this:
cd /usr/lib
find /mnt/usr/lib -maxdepth 1 -print "%P\n" | while read file; do ln -s "/mnt/usr/lib/$file" "$file"; done
If you should happen to want to recursively create the directories and only link files (so that if you create a file within a directory, it really is in /usr/lib not /mnt/usr/lib), you could do this:
cd /usr/lib
find /mnt/usr/lib -mindepth 1 -depth -type d -printf "%P\n" | while read dir; do mkdir -p "$dir"; done
find /mnt/usr/lib -type f -printf "%P\n" | while read file; do ln -s "/mnt/usr/lib/$file" "$file"; done
Jefromi
2009-08-28 14:00:14
I believe this should also work as a way to wildcard in hidden files, if you have extended globbing turned on in bash. It matches everything starting with a dot, followed by something other than nothing or another dot (i.e. it excludes `./` and `../`): `ln -s /mnt/usr/lib/.!(|.)* /usr/lib`
Jefromi
2009-08-28 14:07:11
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A:
cp has an option to create symlinks instead of copying.
cp -rs /mnt/usr/lib /usr/
caf
2009-08-28 14:04:40