Re: batch creation of symlinks

[Hans <hansfong@xxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans hat gesagt: // Hans wrote:
>
>  
>
> > in the subdir, or
> >
> > for i in ./dir1/*.mp3; do ln -s $i $i;done
> >    
>
> Almost, but you're trying to link a file on itself here ("$i->$i").
> Use this instead:
>
> $ for i in ./dir1/*.mp3; do ln -s $i . ;done
>
> or even more general: 
>
> $ for i in */* ; do ln -s $i . ; done
>
> Ciao
>  
This I don't understand: so what does the "." stand for?

Hans

P.S. Almost forgot to thank you. This one works and is short too!