--On Friday, October 14, 2005 08:39:04 -0700 Drew Tomlinson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
Before you put the symlink line in the script, you'll want to echo
$NEWFILES so you can make sure you're cutting at the right place.
(Practice on the commandline so you can see what cut is doing.)
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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