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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting move directories up one level Post 302552842 by faethon on Monday 5th of September 2011 10:57:50 PM
Old 09-05-2011
move directories up one level

hi , could you help me with shell scripting

in a shell script i have these commands
Code:
a=`ls -R $dir | grep ./ `
cp -R ./$a/* ./$output/

with the first command i have all the directories with the second command i want to copy them in a new directory something like this
Code:
old/old/insomnia/1.mp3
old/old/linux/insomnia/sd/2.avi
old/old/linux/insomnia/sd/3.avi

and the new directory tha the script will create is
Code:
new/insomnia/1.mp3
new/sd/2.avi
new/sd/3.avi

thanks in advance !!!

Last edited by Franklin52; 09-06-2011 at 03:05 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
 

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