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Linux bash script symlink with spaces
I am trying to make a script which will find all the folders and files within a given hard drive. then i want to make the symlinks to another folder. However the ln command fails if the folder or file contains space, can someone help me to modify the ln -sf $MOVIE_FILE_LINKS -t $MOVIES_LIB command to make the folders with
link files within directory, with simple command similar to cp
Where my question originated: When running cp source/files.all destination/, all the files within source will now also exist in destination Question: What if I didn’t want to duplicate the data from source into destination, but simply link them (with absolute path). Usually, I would run something like: for f in $(ls source/); do ln -s $(pwd)/${f} $(pwd)/destination; done Is there