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I have a folder which contains many sub-folders which contains many images. I find it tedious to go into each folder to browse the images so I decided to create an empty folder and create symbolic links to all of the images with the following command (I'm on Ubuntu 11.10):
find /home/someuser/ParentImageFolder/Galleries/ -iname "*.jpg" -print -exec ln -s {} . \;
This works fine but the problem I am running into is that if there are two files with the same name in different folders, only one symbolic link gets created.
Can anyone provide a way for me to solve this so that even if there are two files with the same name, I will still get two symbolic links created when I run my command above.
Thanks.
Justin Kredible
Posted 2012-01-01T17:14:15.617
Reputation: 269
Just curious, but why don't you just symlink the whole folders inside the galleries? This way you wouldn't need to bother about the file names:
find /wherever -type d -exec ln -vs {} . \;(or something like that) – runlevel0 – 2018-04-18T08:13:40.143