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nathanlukewong

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Original poster
May 10, 2009
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Hi there

I was wondering if anyone could please tell me how I can show multiple files from different folders on my desktop.

Ive tried using -ln s but that only seems to work for a folder, rather than the contents of the folder.

Thanks
 
You can certainly use a symlink (ln -s) for either files or folders but you can also simply use a Mac "alias" by holding [option]+[command] while dragging the file or folder to the Desktop.
 
You can certainly use a symlink (ln -s) for either files or folders but you can also simply use a Mac "alias" by holding [option]+[command] while dragging the file or folder to the Desktop.

Thanks for the reply - although the folder contents will not be dynamic

How can I have it so that when ever new content is added to a particular folder it is automatically synced to my desktop as well?
 
As JohnDS suggested, maybe automator watch. Or, you could likely write a bash script and schedule it to run every hour using cron. Something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
monitorFolder='/folder/to/monitor'
for f in $(ls ${monitorFolder}/*pattern*)
do
ln -s "${monitorFolder}/${f}" "~/Desktop/${f}"
done

Just threw that together so test the quoting and the subshell "ls" command carefully first but this should be close.
 
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