How to create soft-links for every file in a directory?

I have a directory, /original, that has hundreds of files. I have a script that will process files one at a time and delete the file so it's not executed again if the script gets interrupted. So, I need a bunch of soft links to the files on /original to /processing. Here's what I tried:

find /original -name "*.processme" -exec echo ln -s {} $(basename {}) \;

and got something like:

ln -s /original/1.processme /original/1.processme
ln -s /original/2.processme /original/2.processme
ln -s /original/3.processme /original/3.processme
...

I wanted something like:

ln -s /original/1.processme 1.processme
ln -s /original/2.processme 2.processme
ln -s /original/3.processme 3.processme
...

It app开发者_如何学编程ears that $(basename) is running before {} is converted. Is there a way to fix that? If not, how else could I reach my goal?

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You can also use cp (specifically the -s option, which creates symlinks), eg.

find /original -name "*.processme" -print0 | xargs -0 cp -s --target-directory=.

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find /original -name '*.processme' -exec echo ln -s {} . \;

Special thanks to Ryan Oberoi for helping me realize that I can use a . instead of $(basename ...).

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How about -

ln -s $(echo /original/*.processme) .

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Give this a try:

find /original -name "*.processme" -exec sh -c 'echo ln -s "$@" $(basename "$@")' _ {} \;

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you simply need to remove echo and strip the repeat of the filepath and basename entirely

If your Source folder is this

ls -l /original
total 3
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user   345 Dec 17 21:17 1.processme
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user   345 Dec 17 21:17 2.processme
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user   345 Dec 17 21:17 3.processme

Then

cd /processing
find /original -name "*.processme" -exec ln -s '{}' \;

Should Produce

ls -l /processing
total 3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 33 Dec 17 21:38 1.processme -> /original/1.processme
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 33 Dec 17 21:38 2.processme -> /original/2.processme
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 33 Dec 17 21:38 3.processme -> /original/3.processme

Aware the OP is from 5 years ago I post this for those seeking the same solution like myself before I worked it out.

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ls /home/mindon/bin/* | xargs ln -s -t /usr/local/bin/