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Adrian George
Asked: 2013-08-18 03:18:44 +0800 CST

How to creat a symbolic link to all files with a specific extension from a specific directory using a shell script?

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I tried the following code, but I'm missing something somewhere. I want to create a symbolic link to all *.conf files from /etc/ in /root/links

#!/bin/bash

for conf in /etc/
do
    ln -s "$conf" "/root/links/$conf"
done
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    did you mean:

    for conf in /etc/*.conf
do
    ln -s "$conf" /root/links/
done

    ?

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