Need BASH script help
Joel Oliver
joelol75 at verizon.net
Thu May 15 00:25:00 UTC 2008
Hello, I was wondering if there's anyone who can help me with my problem.
OK.... I have a huge directory of movies (1200+) all in one directory
and I wanted to "divide" them up... Smarty me comes up with a great
idea... symbolic links... Now it would take forever to go into the
terminal and ln -s every file so I discovered konqueror does this with a
drag and drop... Great! So dragging and dropping away I sorted all my
movies alphebetically, by release date, by actors/actresses... All was
well except one BIG thing...
I play them on my neuros OSD and mount them via NFS. Konqueror really
botched this as it created absolute path links and I needed relative
paths....like it did this:
my movies are in /big/sda/moviesa/
my OSD mounts this in /mnt/media/nfs
so the path after the mount is /mnt/media/nfs/sda/moviesa
my sorted symbolic links are in /big/sda/Sorted/Alphebetical/A/movie.avi
and these are linked like /big/sda/moviesa/movie.avi which is great on
the computer but the path is wrong on the OSD. I thought I could
'trick' the OSD with a symbolic link right in the root of the drive, but
this area is solid state and won't let me write to it... So the big ?:
Is there an easy recursive way to recurse through a whole directory
structure, chop off the /big/sda and replace it with a relative ../../..
If I link it as ../../../moviesa/movie.avi it works on both machines....
But that's alot of files to do one-by-one and I'm kinda stumped...
Any quick ideas? I realize this will work with every file as long as I
keep all my links on the 3rd layer... otherwise I would need more or
less "..'s" :)
Thanks in advance,
Joel.
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