LINUX Link all files from one to another directory

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I want to link   ln -s   all files that are in  mnt usr lib  into  usr lib   There are lots of files  how can it be done quickly

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ln -s  mnt usr lib    usr lib

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GNU cp has an option to create symlinks instead of copying   cp -rs  mnt usr lib  usr    Note this is a GNU extension not found in POSIX cp

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ln -s  mnt usr lib    usr lib    I guess  this belongs to superuser  though

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The posted solutions will not link any hidden files  To include them  try this   cd  usr lib find  mnt usr lib -maxdepth 1 -print   P n    while read file  do ln -s   mnt usr lib  file    file   done   If you should happen to want to recursively create the directories and only link files  so that if you create a file within a directory  it really is in  usr lib not  mnt usr lib   you could do this   cd  usr lib find  mnt usr lib -mindepth 1 -depth -type d -printf   P n    while read dir  do mkdir -p   dir   done find  mnt usr lib -type f -printf   P n    while read file  do ln -s   mnt usr lib  file    file   done

[linux] LINUX: Link all files from one to another directory

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