In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What I need is for all the files in the subdirectories of the original >source to have links created in one directory without all the >subdirectories being created aswell. This way one could either view data >in the original tree where it is organized or they can view ALL the data >files (the new links) in one big directory.
This is Unix, so you use several tools together to accomplish whatever you want: $ mkdir collapsed $ cd collapsed $ find /original/path -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 ln -s [untested ofcourse!] Mike.