Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:33:10 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: sara lidgey <slidgey@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple links with single ln command Message-ID: <20060627213310.GA2889@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060627181422.6917.qmail@web35702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060627181422.6917.qmail@web35702.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 2006-06-27 14:14, sara lidgey <slidgey@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've read the man page for ln but can't find a way to do this. I want
> to create multiple links to a single directory with one command.
> Consider the following example. I have a directory structure like
> this:
>
> test/a/
> test/b/
> test/c/
>
> I want to create a symbolic link called "clink" in test/a/ and test/b/
> which points to test/c/
>
> The only way I know to do this is with two commands:
> ln -s test/c test/a/clink
> ln -s test/c test/b/clink
>
> Can it be done with a single command?
I don't think so. The closest you can come to ``a single command''
would be a loop:
$ for dirname in a b ; do ln -s test/c "test/$dirname/clink" ; done
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