Need BASH script help

[Scott Bicknell]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 6:09:30 pm Scott Bicknell wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2008 5:25:00 pm Joel Oliver wrote:
> > 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.
>
> if you use a for loop in bash:
>
> cd /big/sda/Sorted/Alphebetical/A
> for movie in /big/sda/moviesa/*.avi; do
>   ln ../../..${movie##*/} ${movie##*/}
> done
>
> then you should get the results you are looking for. 1200+
> files may be too long for a bash for loop list, though. You
> may need to combine this with xargs to prevent any problems.
> --
> Scott

should have put a slash between the ..'s and the $movie variable.
ln ../../../${movie##*/} ${movie##*/}
-- 
Scott