Re: Feature Request: add wildcards and recursive to ln

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Vincent J. Schiavoni wrote on 20-02-08 17:21:
> Hello:
>
> Please consider adding features to ln to allow recursive linking of 
> files in a directory and the use of wildcards to support that feature.
>
> At present, there appears to be no way to link large numbers of files in 
> a "batch"-type mode - each file must be linked individually, or a 
> work-around used such as for example "for i in /usr/local/lib/*; do ln 
> -s $i /usr/lib/ ; done".  It would be nice to have that functionality 
> integrated into ln.

Methinks it would not.

Why is that a 'workaround?'.
Btw, that is just an example, isn't it?

Take a look at lndir, which comes with Xorg.

bjd