Renaming parent directory of a directory that has symbolic links pointed to

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I have created x number of symbolic links (ln -s path file) to a directory named templates that lives within mytheme directory. I would like to rename the theme folder but don't know the consequence of this with the symbolic links I've created previously. I have roughly about 50. What would happen to them? Do they just die and would need re-doing one by one or is there a quick way? Here is the structure:



themes
mytheme
templates
...
_theme-x1
templates //symbolic link
_theme-x2
templates //symbolic link
....
_theme-x50
templates //symbolic link









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    I have created x number of symbolic links (ln -s path file) to a directory named templates that lives within mytheme directory. I would like to rename the theme folder but don't know the consequence of this with the symbolic links I've created previously. I have roughly about 50. What would happen to them? Do they just die and would need re-doing one by one or is there a quick way? Here is the structure:



    themes
    mytheme
    templates
    ...
    _theme-x1
    templates //symbolic link
    _theme-x2
    templates //symbolic link
    ....
    _theme-x50
    templates //symbolic link









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      I have created x number of symbolic links (ln -s path file) to a directory named templates that lives within mytheme directory. I would like to rename the theme folder but don't know the consequence of this with the symbolic links I've created previously. I have roughly about 50. What would happen to them? Do they just die and would need re-doing one by one or is there a quick way? Here is the structure:



      themes
      mytheme
      templates
      ...
      _theme-x1
      templates //symbolic link
      _theme-x2
      templates //symbolic link
      ....
      _theme-x50
      templates //symbolic link









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      I have created x number of symbolic links (ln -s path file) to a directory named templates that lives within mytheme directory. I would like to rename the theme folder but don't know the consequence of this with the symbolic links I've created previously. I have roughly about 50. What would happen to them? Do they just die and would need re-doing one by one or is there a quick way? Here is the structure:



      themes
      mytheme
      templates
      ...
      _theme-x1
      templates //symbolic link
      _theme-x2
      templates //symbolic link
      ....
      _theme-x50
      templates //symbolic link






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          You'll have to redo all the links...



          If the templates is common to all maybe you should put it in a themes/common directory and have all the themes link to it.



           for theme in *; do cd "$theme" ; rm templates ; ln -s ../common/templates . ; cd - ; done





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            You'll have to redo all the links...



            If the templates is common to all maybe you should put it in a themes/common directory and have all the themes link to it.



             for theme in *; do cd "$theme" ; rm templates ; ln -s ../common/templates . ; cd - ; done





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              You'll have to redo all the links...



              If the templates is common to all maybe you should put it in a themes/common directory and have all the themes link to it.



               for theme in *; do cd "$theme" ; rm templates ; ln -s ../common/templates . ; cd - ; done





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                You'll have to redo all the links...



                If the templates is common to all maybe you should put it in a themes/common directory and have all the themes link to it.



                 for theme in *; do cd "$theme" ; rm templates ; ln -s ../common/templates . ; cd - ; done





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                You'll have to redo all the links...



                If the templates is common to all maybe you should put it in a themes/common directory and have all the themes link to it.



                 for theme in *; do cd "$theme" ; rm templates ; ln -s ../common/templates . ; cd - ; done






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