PHP symlink a huge files list - php

Question

I have a huge file's list (more than 48k files with paths) and I wanna to do a symlink for these files
Here is my PHP code:
$files=explode("\n","files.txt");
foreach($files as $file){
$file=trim($file);
#symlink($file,"/home/".$file."#".rand(1,80000).".txt");
}
The problem is the process takes more than 1 hour
I thought about checking if the file exists first and then do a symlink, so I made some research in php.net and there some functions like is_link() and readlink() for what I wanted in the first place, but a comment took my attention:
It is neccesary to be notified that readlink only works for a real link file, if this link file locates to a directory, you cannot detect and read its contents, the is_link() function will always return false and readlink() will display a warning is you try to do.
So I made this new code:
$files=explode("\n","files.txt");
foreach($files as $file){
$file=trim($file);
if(!empty(readlink($file))){
#symlink($file,"/home/".$file."#".rand(1,80000).".txt");
}
}
The problem now : "there is no symlink files !"
How I can prevent this problems ? Should I use a multi threading or there is another option

Answer 1

Obviously you are running Linux-based operating system and your question is related to File system.
In this case I would recommend to create bash script to read the file.txt and create the symlinks for all of them.
Good start to this is:
How to symlink a file in Linux?
Linux/UNIX: Bash Read a File Line By Line
Random number from a range in a Bash Script
So you may try something like this:
#!/bin/bash
while read name
do
# Do what you want to $name
ln -s /full/path/to/the/file/$name /path/to/symlink/shuf -i 1-80000 -n 1$name'.txt'
done < file.txt
EDIT:
One line solution:
while read name; do ln -s /full/path/to/the/file/$name /path/to/symlink/shuf -i 1-80000 -n 1$name'.txt'; done < file.txt
Note: Replace the "file.txt" with full path to the file. And test it on small amount of files if anything goes wrong.