[help needed] make symlinks in dir to dir script for bashburn

Question

Hi! i start using bashburn and i think is amazing! but the only thing is that to make the symlinks to /tmp/burn is tedious... i use tuxcmd and one file at the time i select from the right click menu "make symlink" for all the files i want... so i think to make an script to make symlinks from one directory to another and then when finish, delete those symlinks... BUT (BIG BUT ) i only want to make symlinks to /tmp/burn until it has dvd5 size (4,3gb?) adding symlinks in alfabethical order throught the original dir, because its no use if size is larger than DVD size i will need to delete those files... maybe later i can add the choose option between DVD sizes or specify a custom size
Here's what i have right now, need little help & comments i think this will be usefull to many
#!/bin/bash
echo ' -- Make symlinks script -- '
sleep 1
##### ORIGINAL DIRECTORY #####
IDIR=pwd
echo ' Original directory: ' $IDIR
echo ' -- press c to change directory, Enter to continue -- '
read DIR
while [ "$DIR" = c ]; do
echo ' Enter new directory path: '
read IDIR
echo ' New directory: ' $IDIR
echo ' -- press c to change, Enter to continue -- '
read DIR
done
##### DESTINATION DIRECTORY #####
echo ' Destination directory: /tmp/burn '
echo ' -- press c to change directory, Enter to continue -- '
read DIR
while [ "$DIR" = c ]; do
echo ' Enter new directory path: '
read FDIR
echo ' New directory: ' $FDIR
echo ' -- press c to change, Enter to continue -- '
read DIR
done
##### MAKE SYMLINKS #####
for x in $IDIR
do
ln -s $IDIR/$x $FDIR/$x
#HERE i think need to be the directory size limit check ($size or 4,5 gb limit), dont?
done
##### SHOW CREATED SYMLINKS #####
echo Symlinks created from $IDIR to $FDIR :
ls -l $FDIR
##### KEEP OR DELETE CREATED SYMLINKS #####
echo ' -- press k to keep symlinks in ' $FDIR ', Enter to delete created symlinks in ' $FDIR ' -- '
read
for x in $ODIR ; do
rm $x
done
echo ' symlinks in $FDIR deleted '
sleep 3
##### SHOW DESTINATION DIRECTORY #####
echo ' content of $FDIR: '
ls -l $FDIR
echo ' Press a key to exit '
read
exit 0

Answer 1

Cool. I tried a bit, however -- it is not very much documented. Maybe you can use it:
#!/bin/bash
echo ' -- Make symlinks script -- '
sleep 1
##### ORIGINAL DIRECTORY #####
IDIR=$(pwd)
FDIR=/tmp/burn
ODIR=/tmp/other
# MAXSIZE in kbytes
MAXSIZE=$(( 120 * 1024 ))
echo $MAXSIZE
echo ' Original directory: ' $IDIR
echo ' -- press c to change directory, Enter to continue -- '
read DIR
while [ "$DIR" = c ]; do
echo ' Enter new directory path: '
read IDIR
echo ' New directory: ' $IDIR
echo ' -- press c to change, Enter to continue -- '
read DIR
done
##### DESTINATION DIRECTORY #####
echo ' Destination directory: /tmp/burn '
echo ' -- press c to change directory, Enter to continue -- '
read DIR
while [ "$DIR" = c ]; do
echo ' Enter new directory path: '
read FDIR
echo ' New directory: ' $FDIR
echo ' -- press c to change, Enter to continue -- '
read DIR
done
##### MAKE SYMLINKS #####
for x in $(ls -l $IDIR|grep ^d|cut -d " " -f 9)
do
SIZE=$(du -k --max-depth=0 $IDIR/$x | cut -f 1)
if [ $SIZE -lt $MAXSIZE ]
then
echo "Creating link for dir: $x size: $SIZE"
ln -s $IDIR/$x $FDIR/$x
else
echo "Not creating link for dir: $x size: $SIZE"
fi
#HERE i think need to be the directory size limit check ($size or 4,5 gb limit), dont?
done
##### SHOW CREATED SYMLINKS #####
echo Symlinks created from $IDIR to $FDIR :
ls -l $FDIR
##### KEEP OR DELETE CREATED SYMLINKS #####
echo ' -- press k to keep symlinks in ' $FDIR ', Enter to delete created symlinks in ' $FDIR ' -- '
read
for x in $ODIR ; do
rm $x
done
echo ' symlinks in $FDIR deleted '
sleep 3
##### SHOW DESTINATION DIRECTORY #####
echo ' content of $FDIR: '
ls -l $FDIR
echo ' Press a key to exit '
read
exit 0