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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with moving files with same names from subdirectories? Post 302520997 by r4v3n on Tuesday 10th of May 2011 12:46:02 AM
Old 05-10-2011
Help with moving files with same names from subdirectories?
I was wondering if someone could help me with this:

I have multiple directories and subdirectories with files in them. I need to move all files from all directories and subdirectories into one root directory. However, when i do
Code:
find /home/user -mindepth 1 -iname "*" -type f -exec mv {} . \;

The command takes only 1 copy of files with the same name and ignores all other files. Ideally I would like it to rename files with same file names to something else. Like appending a number etc.

Example:
Code:
/home/user/test/setup.log
/home/user/best/setup.log

when moved to a folder should be setup.log1 setup.log2 and so on.

Any help is much appreciated
Last edited by Franklin52; 05-10-2011 at 03:26 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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