multiple sources folder view

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sunday 09 May 2010 20:12:01 you wrote:
> On Sunday May 9 2010 22:01:51 you wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 May 2010 19:48:20 Dj YB wrote:
> > > is it possible to configure a folder in Dolphin or any other way to
> > > show the content of multiple sources?
> > > 
> > > for example the folder ~/Movies will show the content of the folders
> > > /mnt/Disk-500/Movies
> > > /mnt/Disk-250/Movies
> > > ~/Downloads/videos
> > > 
> > > writing to ~/Movies would write to a specified location, possibly one
> > > of the mentioned above.
> > 
> > Symlinks?
> > 
> perhaps there is something really basic I am missing about symlinks, the
> desired result is like that:
> 
> if folder A contain files a,b,c
> and folder B contain files d,e,f
> folder C is empty but is configured to show the content of folder A and B
> and therefore will show a,b,c,d,e,f
> 
> how do I do that with symlinks?

cd C
ln -s ../A/a
ln -s ../A/b
ln -s ../A/c
ln -s ../B/d
ln -s ../B/e
ln -s ../B/f

If you have many files you can bash-script it, and create a cron job to refresh 
the links periodically.

HTH :-)
Marko