Symlink all files in a Folder to a new Folder

Ideally what I am seeking is a way to rename all my anime keeping original files intact without using extra data space

The solution I can think of is creating a duplicate folder path to another location and then symlinking each file into the new duplicated folder path for renaming for media scraper to identify them

My question is how to create a symlink of every file in a folder to a new location.

Using FreeBSD 9, the following did not work for me :

cd ../bar
cp --symbolic-link ../foo/* .

Doing individually ( however that was with file rename which is not needed for now )

ln -s "/ZFSRaidz/Multimedia/Anime/Naruto_Shippuuden/[HorribleSubs] Naruto Shippuuden - 244 [480p].mkv" "/ZFSRaidz/XBMC/Multimedia/Anime/Naruto_Shippuuden/Naruto Shippuuden-244.mkv"

Solution 1:

If you don't need to do a rename, then the following will symlink every file in a folder to a new folder:

ln -s /ZFSRaidz/Multimedia/Anime/Naruto_Shippuuden/* /ZFSRaidz/XBMC/Multimedia/Anime/Naruto_Shippuuden-2/

This will create a symlink in the Naruto_Shippuuden-2 for each file in Naruto_Shippuuden