Create symbolic links with wildcards

Question

I want to sort the extjs columns, I have the column type as float and from the server side i am getting values which can contain "-" value , now what happens the grid is displaying me the NaN value instead of - and the sort is not working anymore.

My requirement is to create a custom sort which can sort first based on number and then sort based on string.

Thanks to suggest as renderer also not works for me.

My Json String is:

{metaData:{"totalProperty":"total", "root":"records","fields":[{"header":"Part Number##false","name":"XJE010^VT-007!0","type":"string"},{"header":"Marketing Status##false","name":"STP716^VT-007!0","type":"string"},{"header":"Package##false","name":"XJE016^VT-007!0","type":"string"},{"header":"Automotive Grade##false","name":"STP472^VT-007!0","type":"string"},{"header":"VDSS##false","name":"XJG810^VT-007!0","type":"float"},{"header":"Drain Current (Dc)(I_D) % (A)##false","name":"XJG273^VT-006!0","type":"float"},{"header":"RDS(on) (@VGS=10V) % (Ω)##false","name":"XJG640^VT-006!3","type":"float"},{"header":"Features##false","name":"GNP023^VT-007!0","type":"string"},{"header":"RDS(on) (@4.5 or 5V) % (Ω)##false","name":"XJG640^VT-006!6","type":"float"},{"header":"RDS(on) (@2.7V) % (Ω)##false","name":"XJG640^VT-006!7","type":"float"},{"header":"RDS(on) (@1.8V) % (Ω)##false","name":"XJG640^VT-006!8","type":"float"},{"header":"Free Samples##false","name":"STP0881^VT-007!0","type":"string"},{"header":"Total Gate Charge(Qg) typ ()##true","name":"STP049^VT-002!0","type":"float"},{"header":"Total Power Dissipation(PD) % (W)##true","name":"XJG820^VT-006!0","type":"float"}]},"success":"true", "total":13,"records":[{"XJE010^VT-007!0":"STB80PF55$$/cn/analog/product/67164.jsp","STP716^VT-007!0":"Active","XJE016^VT-007!0":"D2PAK","STP472^VT-007!0":"_","XJG810^VT-007!0":"-55","XJG273^VT-006!0":"80","XJG640^VT-006!3":".018","GNP023^VT-007!0":"-","XJG640^VT-006!6":"-","XJG640^VT-006!7":"-","XJG640^VT-006!8":"-","STP0881^VT-007!0":"No","STP049^VT-002!0":"190","XJG820^VT-006!0":"300"},{"XJE010^VT-007!0":"STD10PF06$$/cn/analog/product/64543.jsp","STP716^VT-007!0":"Active","XJE016^VT-007!0":"IPAK TO-251 TO 252 DPAK","STP472^VT-007!0":"_","XJG810^VT-007!0":"-60","XJG273^VT-006!0":"-10","XJG640^VT-006!3":".2","GNP023^VT-007!0":"-","XJG640^VT-006!6":"-","XJG640^VT-006!7":"-","XJG640^VT-006!8":"-","STP0881^VT-007!0":"No

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Solution 1

You might want to do that:

for dir in dir1 dir2
do
  [[ ! -d /somedir/$dir ]] && mkdir /somedir/$dir    
  find /media/sd*/$dir -type f -exec bash -c \
    '[[ ! -f /somedir/'$dir'/$(basename $1) ]] && ln -s $1 /somedir/'$dir'/' foo {} \;
done

This create symbolic links in /somedir/dir1/ (resp. dir2) pointing to all files present under /media/sd*/dir1 (resp. dir2). This script doesn't preserve hierarchy that might be present under the source directories.

Edit: Should you want all the links to be placed in a single directory, here is a slightly modified version:

[[ ! -d /somedir/data ]] && mkdir /somedir/data    
find /media/sd*/dir[12] -type f -exec bash -c \
    '[[ ! -f /somedir/data/$(basename $1) ]] && ln -s $1 /somedir/data/' foo {} \;
done

Solution 2

This will create symlinks /somedir/dir1/* pointing to /media/sd*/dir1/*.

mkdir /somedir/dir1
ln -sf /media/sd*/dir1 /somedir/dir1

If a file or directory exists in more than one /media/sd*/dir1/ then the link will point to the last one, for example if you have:

/media/sda1/dir1/Movies
/media/sda1/dir1/Pictures
/media/sdb1/dir1/Movies
/media/sdb1/dir1/Data

you will get:

/somedir/dir1/Movies -> /media/sdb1/dir1/Movies
/somedir/dir1/Pictures -> /media/sda1/dir1/Pictures
/somedir/dir1/Data -> /media/sdb1/dir1/Data

Not sure if this is what you want though.

It seems to me that unionfs mounting over /media/sd* would better serve your purpose than symlinks.

Comments

[janos]

When you say "symbolic link named dir1 which link to /media/sd*/dir1" that sounds like a link pointing to multiple places which is not possible: a link can only point from one place to one place. Maybe you want all the files under /media/sda/dir1/* and /media/sdb/dir1/* to be linked to from /somedir/dir1/* ? It would seem to me that unionfs over the two disks would better serve your purpose then symlinks.

[Haukur]

I tried this but it didn't work as expected. It essentially copied the hierarchy of /media: it resulted in /somedir/media/a/..., /somedir/media/b/..., etc instead of creating /somedir/data as one folder.

[jlliagre]

Sorry, there was a bug in my script. Answer edited.

[Haukur]

Thanks but this is not what I wanted to do. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.

[Trevor]

It was what I wanted to do though. Thanks!