Bash script to automatically create symlinks to subdirectories in a tree

Question

Ok, this is my third try posting this, maybe I\'m asking the wrong question!!

It\'s been a few years since I\'ve done any shell programming so I\'m a bit rusty...

Answer 1

Use a for loop.

for name in $(find $from_dir -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3 -type d); do
  ln -s $name $to_dir
done

Xargs has issues where the input from the pipe goes at the end of the command. What you want is multiple commands, not just 1 command.

My experience with doing things within the find command can sometimes be slow, although it does get the job done.