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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find and Move Files up One Level Post 302627347 by ideal2545 on Friday 20th of April 2012 01:15:00 PM

04-20-2012

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Hi vbe, thanks for the quick response, I have about a thousand directories that I need to apply it recursively to.

Basically I have something like

/path/to/application/files/and/stuff/a1/nolongerneededirectory/*.*
/path/to/application/files/and/stuff/a2/nolongerneededirectory/*.*
/path/to/application/files/and/stuff/a3/nolongerneededirectory/*.*

So Im trying to move them up like this:

/path/to/application/files/and/stuff/a1/*.*
/path/to/application/files/and/stuff/a2/*.*
/path/to/application/files/and/stuff/a3/*.*

---------- Post updated at 10:15 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:43 AM ----------

I thought maybe it would be easier to do a find and then whatever it finds based on extenstion, to move it up one level.

I ran across this:

find A -type f -exec sh -c 'mv -i "$1" "${1%/*}"' sh {} \;

but I get a "bad substitution" if I try this. I also not sure if it would actually accomplish the task.

Ideally it would do something like:

-bash-3.2$ find /path/to/ -name '*.txt'
output:
/path/to/directories1/test1/test1.txt
/path/to/directories2/test2/test2.txt
/path/to/directories3/test3/test3.txt

then
mv /path/to/directories1/test1/test1.txt /path/to/directories1/test1.txt
mv /path/to/directories2/test2/test2.txt /path/to/directories2/test2.txt
mv /path/to/directories3/test3/test3.txt /path/to/directories3/test3.txt

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