Thanks for the assistance. I was looking into find already and if I simply wanted to find all of the .txt files and name them something that I preset I could do that. I did not want to say that I thought I should use find in case there was another command out there that I did not know about that is better.

Where I am stuck though is the naming of the file after its directory name. I just do not see and example of that anywhere. My only thought would be to use find twice maybe?
find <the sub_dir> find <the .txt> mv <the .txt> <<sub_dir>.txt>
Any thoughts?
I'm still trying to find the right way to make it work.

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Is there a way to specify which -exec variable you re dealing with if you have more than one?
I have been trying:
find . -type d -exec find {} \; -type f -name "*.txt" -exec mv {} (the file) {}.txt(the dir name that the fiel being renamed is in)
no luck so far
In testing I am just trying to echo both brackets:
find . -type d -exec find {} \; -type f -name "*.txt" -exec echo "one {} two {}" \;
But all I get is a print of all directories and all .txt files and it does not display the "one" or "two"

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For the record I talked with a friend and came up with this.
For a file system that looks like this:

a
`-- b
|-- c
| |
| `-- somename.txt
`-- d
|
`-- somename.txt
> cd a/b/
> for x in *;do mv $x/*-.txt $x/${x}.txt;done

I hope this helps anyone else in the future.