Re: Virtual Folders

["Grant Thomas" <eldowan.debian@gmail.com>]

> This might totally be what you have not in mind, but something like this
> will take a search and put all matches as a link into a directory:
>
> mkdir ~/tmp/virtual_ooffice; for b in `locate /home/*\.sxw`;
> do cp -l $b tmp/virtual_ooffice/; done
>
> This one-liner can be enhanced/changed to all your whishes, basically
> any file matching program can replace the locate in backticks.
> Also some quotes would be needed for escaping weirdly named files.
> And finally you might want to build a little shell script that takes
> output dir and search pattern as arguments.
>
> But I guess you are looking for something graphical...
>

Thanks for the info. I will give it a shot and hopefully it will do
what I'm looking for.

I'm not not looking specifically for something graphical, Apple and
Vista are the only two examples that I had to go off of.