Re: Linking Recursively

[John <rameth@orcon.net.nz>]

"lndir" is what you seem to be looking for and according to "dpkg -S lndir" its
part of the xutils package.
this is on woody of course :)..

cheers

adren@mail.provision.net wrote:

> Hey all,
> I'm looking for a utility/script which will travel recursively through a
> directory tree and create links from all the files back to a centralized
> root directory. Anyone know of anything which will do this?
>
> #This would be the actual true path to data files
> /home/user/base/branch1/data a/branch1 - data a #1 - name1.dat
> /home/user/base/branch1/data b/branch1 - data b #1 - name1.dat
> /home/user/base/branch2/data a/branch2 - data a #1 - name1.dat
> /home/user/base/branch2/data b/branch2 - data b #1 - name1.dat
> /home/user/base/branch3/data a/branch3 - data a #1 - name1.dat
> /home/user/base/branch3/data b/branch4 - data b #1 - name1.dat
>
> #  This would be the location of the required links.
> /home/user/base/all/branch1 - data a #1 - name1.dat
> /home/user/base/all/branch1 - data b #1 - name1.dat
> /home/user/base/all/branch2 - data a #1 - name1.dat
> /home/user/base/all/branch2 - data b #1 - name1.dat
> /home/user/base/all/branch3 - data a #1 - name1.dat
> /home/user/base/all/branch3 - data b #1 - name1.dat
>
> Thanks
>
> -Rob
>
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