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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with Recursive function Post 302105612 by sb008 on Saturday 3rd of February 2007 09:17:24 AM
Old 02-03-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by zazzybob
Here's a simple starting point....
Code:
$ find dirA -type f -print | while read filename; do
>    mv ${filename} ./destDir/`echo ${filename} | sed 's!/!_!g'`
> done
$ find dirA -type f -print
$ ls destDir
dirA_dirB_dirE_file_4  dirA_dirC_dirF_dirI_file_7  dirA_dirC_file_2       dirA_dirD_file_3
dirA_dirB_file_1       dirA_dirC_dirF_file_5       dirA_dirD_dirG_file_6

As you can see, all files are moved from dirA to destDir.

You can then just rm -rf dirA


Cheers
ZB
This is the way to do it.

The original script fails because of the
for i in *
statement

The * is evaluated at start of the function and doesn't anticipate on files moved to that directory from a subdirectory.
 

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