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I want to create soft links (ln -s) to folder2 of all the files that contain *foo* in its name, and can be found in some or all the subdirectories of folder1.

I've tried it with for, find, and find -exec ln, and a combination of them, but all I get is a broken link named *foo* or a link to everything inside folder1.

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You can use this little snippet

#!/bin/bash

folder1="/path/to/folder1"
find "$folder1" -type f -name '*foo*' -exec \ 
sh -c 'for f; do ln -s "$folder1" "/path/to/folder2/${f##*/}"; done' _ {} +

This can run from anywhere since I'm using absolute paths here.

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