Conditionally create symbolic link by filesize using find exec ubuntu 10.04
- by jmlw
I have an interesting problem. I'm trying to create symbolic links in a single folder, for all files in a directory which are larger than a specified size.
For clarification, here is an example:
/Files
/Large_Files
/LargeFile1_symlink
/LargeFile2_symlink
/Folder1
/file_a
/file_b
/Folder2
/LargeFile1
/Folder3
/LargeFile2
/file_c
What I have so far to try to accomplish this is:
find -size +102400 -exec ln -s $PWD/{} Large_Files/ \;
However, this find produces
./LargeFile1
So my symlink command produces
ln -s /Files/Folder2/./LargeFile1 Large_Files/
My question is, would it be possible to use the basename command to separate out only the filename so this command will work? Or does anybody have a suggestion on how to do this without writing a script, or give me an example on writing a script?
I've never done scripting before, but I do know Java, but don't want to take the time to do all this in Java.
Thank you for any help!
Edit: adding tags
