I have multiple hard drives with the same directory hierarchy, for example:
/media/sda/dir1
/media/sda/dir2
...
/media/sdb/dir1
/media/sdb/dir2
Two hard drives with similar names and similar directory names.
I want to create separate symbolic links to dir1 and dir2 on every hard drive.
The easiest way I have found is to use cp -sR
:
cp -sR /media/sd*/dir1 /somedir/dir1
cp -sR /media/sd*/dir2 /somedir/dir2
However, this creates new directories in /somedir which has various side effects, for example, the directory timestamps are useless.
How can I create symbolic links named dir1 and dir2 which link to /media/sd*/dir1 and /media/sd*/dir2? Files are regularly added to the hard drives so I would need to run these commands on a regular basis.
Best Answer
You might want to do that:
This create symbolic links in /somedir/dir1/ (resp. dir2) pointing to all files present under /media/sd*/dir1 (resp. dir2). This script doesn't preserve hierarchy that might be present under the source directories.
Edit: Should you want all the links to be placed in a single directory, here is a slightly modified version: