A script to symlink all JPG image files on my file server to a flat directory accessible to DLNA enabled devices.
The files are organized in year directories, and under each year there are month directories:
-2011 --2011-01 --2011-02 --2011-03 ... -2012 --2012-01
NOTE: Duplicate symlinks are avoided by using file names like 20110102-1234_DSC…JPG or YYYYMMDD-HHMM_OriginalFileName.JPG
#!/bin/bash SRC="/media/Images" DEST="/media/SymlinkTarget" # Create a symlink under $DEST for each JPG file under $SRC find $SRC -type f | grep -i jpg | while read PATHNAME; do NEW="$DEST"; echo "$NEW"; ln -s "$PATHNAME" "$NEW"; done