Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:47:16 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sh Scripting - String Manipulation Message-ID: <434FEF24.4050803@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <72CE9870C77DFB8443C76023@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <434EE80D.2010103@mykitchentable.net> <0D55CDDCD0D6445B3FF1FA6B@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> <434FD118.60109@mykitchentable.net> <72CE9870C77DFB8443C76023@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On 10/14/2005 9:27 AM Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Friday, October 14, 2005 08:39:04 -0700 Drew Tomlinson > <drew@mykitchentable.net> wrote: > >> >> >> That's a good idea (and something else I never thought of) if I wanted >> all the files, not just the *.jpg files. And as I'll explain below, I >> intend to expand this script to work with additional directories where I >> might just want the *.mp3 or the just the *.avi, *.mpg, etc. My thought >> was to build a script and run it through cron to keep the symlinks >> updated. >> > OK. Then I think you're going about it the wrong way. > > This would accomplish what you want without having to do any string > manipulation, and without having to generate a list of files. The for > loop does all that for you. > > for files in /my/dir/for/files/*.jpg > do > NEWFILES=`$files | cut -d'/' -f 6` > ln -s $files /new/dir/for/pics/$NEWFILES > done But there is still one problem. This won't search recursively which is why I was using find. However if I start with "for files in `find /multimedia -iname "*.jpg" -print" this would probably work. I'll try it and see. Or is there some other (better) way to search for files recursively? Thanks again, Drew
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