Create symbolic link from find

Question

I\'m trying to create a symbolic link (soft link) from the results of a find command. I\'m using sed to remove the ./ that precedes the file name. I\'m doing this so I can paste

Answer 1

Execute your for loop like this:

(IFS=$'\n'; for t in `find -type f -name "*txt*" | sed 's|.*/||'`; do ln -s $t ../folder2/$t; done)

By setting the IFS to only a newline, you should be able to read the entire filename without getting splitted at space.

The brackets are to make sure the loop is executed in a sub-shell and the IFS of the current shell does not get changed.

Answer 2

Easier:

Go to the folder where you want to have the files in and do:

find /path/with/files -type f -name "*txt*" -exec ln -s {} . ';'