sourcedir - Make links to files in this directory. sourcedir may be either a fully-qualified path or a relative path. Relative paths are preferred for purposes of portability. If sourcedir is a relative path, the link will be relative paths. If sourcedir is a fully-qualified path, the links will be fully qualified paths.

pattern - A regular expression in the syntax of the bash shell. (Optional)

Make links to all fq.gz files in reads.corrected:

makelinks.sh ../reads.corrected *.fq.gz

Make links to all .gff or .gtf  files in reads.corrected:

makelinks.sh ../genome *.g[ft]f

Both of the following make links to all files in sourcedir:

makelinks.sh sourcedir
makelinks.sh sourcedir * 

Dr. Brian Fristensky
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB  Canada R3T 2N2
brian.fristensky@umanitoba.ca
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~frist