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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers really dumb MV command question Post 302627519 by Corona688 on Friday 20th of April 2012 04:48:42 PM
Old 04-20-2012
Well, the method I just suggested should work. /absolute/path/../filename looks a little odd, but will work.

Code:
# SAve to temporary file, so contents of directories don't change while find is running.
find ~/ -type f > /tmp/$$
awk -F"/" -v OFS="/" '{F=$0 ; $NF="../"$NF; print F" "$0 }' /tmp/$$ |
while read ORIG NEW
do
      echo mv "$ORIG" "$NEW"
done

rm -f /tmp/$$

Remove the 'echo' once you're sure it does what you want.
 

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