can I create symbolic links for multiple files simutaneously

cliffyao · 02-18-2010, 03:37 PM

Hi, all

I have 5 files in directory /test1

file1.txt
file2.txt
..
file5.txt

I want to make symbolic links for all them to my current directory /test2

I tried

$ln -s /test1/*.txt .

but it failed. It seems like I can't make symbolic links for all the 5 files simultaneously.

Anybody knows how to solve this problem? Often times I need make symbolic links for multiple files with some common pattern (just like ".txt" here). I really hope to avoid making symbolic link for each of them one by one...

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

-Cliff

smoker · 02-18-2010, 03:52 PM

link the directory instead.

cliffyao · 02-18-2010, 03:58 PM

no, I can't.. In directory /test1, I have some other files which should not be linked.

pixellany · 02-18-2010, 04:11 PM

Code:

for file in $(ls <path>|grep <something>); do ln -s <path>$file; done