Create symbolic links to all files located using `find` command

Create Symbolic links using find command.md

Create Symbolic links using find command.

The find command helps to find files in a directory. It returns the relatives path of the files found. If you want to create symbolic links of all found files you will need the absolute path of them.

This is the right way to create symbolic links using find.

find some_path -type f -name '*.file_extension' -exec ln -s -t 'path_to_put_the_created_links' "$(readlink -f "{}")" \;

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