First get the links of the raw data files in a text file using;

for f in $(ls *.gz) ; do echo "ln -s $(readlink -f ${f})"  ; done > /path/to/the/scripts_folder/scripts.AIqbal/links.sh

Then change directory to /path/to/the/scripts_folder/scripts.AIqbal/ to edit the links.sh file and add the following at the top;

#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p ../raw_data
cd ../raw_data 

Rename the linked samples to more user understandable names by adding the new sample name after a space in the links.sh file after the link command. For example;

ln -s /beegfs/group_bit/data/raw_data/departments/Thomas_Langer/TL_Lasarzewski_RNAseq/bastet.ccg.uni-koeln.de/downloads/ylasarzewski_LA07/A006200063_115422_S32_L002_R1_001.fastq.gz HeLa_WT_REP1_READ_1.fastq.gz

Change permissions of the links.sh file to make it executable by;

chmod +x links.sh

Execute the file by;

./links.sh