Script to create softlink for specific file in every dir

[c.monty]

Hello!

My music library is organised in this structure:
/music/<artist>_<album>/

In every directory there's a file named
front_<artist>_<album>.jpg

The script should search in every directory for this file and create a softlink front.jpg on it.

Can you provide some input for the syntax of a bash script?
That would be highly appreciated.

THX

[xenopeek]

Not so hard, just one command:

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find . -iname front_\*.jpg -type f -printf "\"ln -s '%f' '%h/front.jpg'\"\n" | xargs -l bash -c

Open a terminal on the music directory, and run it from there. It will find all the files beginning with front_ and ending in .jpg (case-insensitive, make it -name instead of -iname to make it a case-sensitive search). At the directory where it found those it will create a symbolic link to each and call it front.jpg. If you are in doubt, first only run the first part:

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find . -iname front_\*.jpg -type f -printf "\"ln -s '%f' '%h/front.jpg'\"\n"

It will give you a list of all the commands it will run to create the symbolic links.

Hack on