You have said that a "geek" gave you a non-working script that uses bash, but you haven't said what shell(s) are available for you to use nor what operating system(s) are present on systems that will be running this script.

The following script will work with any POSIX-conforming shell on any system that has a shell that conforms to the 1992 or any later version of the POSIX Shell and Utilities standard (and many shells that support a fairly common subset of POSIX requirements) such as any version of ksh or bash:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
# This script works with any POSIX conforming shell.
dir1="/Path"
cd "$dir1"
for srcd in AdminUser/*/*/Reports
do	targetd=${srcd#*/}
	if [ ! -d "$srcd" ] || [ ! -d "$targetd" ]
	then	continue	# Source or target directory does not exist.
	fi
	cd "$srcd" > /dev/null
	for file in *.txt
	do	if [ "$file" = '*.txt' ]
		then	break	# No *.txt files to move in this directory
		else	echo mv *.txt "$dir1/$targetd"	# Move the files
			break
		fi
	done
	cd - > /dev/null
done

If you have a recent ksh that expands ~(N)*.txt to an empty list if there are no files in the current directory ending with .txt or if you have a recent bash that expands [ICODE]*.txt[/CODE] to an empty list after the command shopt -s nullglob, then the 2nd for loop in the above script can be simplified as in:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
# This script works with a recent Korn shell that recognizes: ~(N)*.txt
# to expand to nothing if there are no files in the current directory ending
# with ".txt"
dir1="/Path"
cd "$dir1"
for srcd in AdminUser/*/*/Reports
do	targetd=${srcd#*/}
	if [ ! -d "$srcd" ] || [ ! -d "$targetd" ]
	then	continue	# Source or target directory does not exist.
	fi
	cd "$srcd" > /dev/null
	for file in ~(N)*.txt
	do	echo mv *.txt "$dir1/$targetd"	# Move the files
		break
	done
	cd - > /dev/null
done

or:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# This script works with a recent bash shell that recognizes: shopt -s nullglob
# followed by: *.txt
# to expand to nothing if there are no files in the current directory ending
# with ".txt"
shopt -s nullglob
dir1="/Path"
cd "$dir1"
for srcd in AdminUser/*/*/Reports
do	targetd=${srcd#*/}
	if [ ! -d "$srcd" ] || [ ! -d "$targetd" ]
	then	continue	# Source or target directory does not exist.
	fi
	cd "$srcd" > /dev/null
	for file in *.txt
	do	echo mv *.txt "$dir1/$targetd"	# Move the files
		break
	done
	cd - > /dev/null
done

If the mv commands echoed by the above scripts do what you want, remove the echo shown in red to actually execute the mv commands.

All of these scripts assume that (since they move into the various source directories before expanding the list of files to be moved) that list won't exceed ARG_MAX limits (so xargs or similar utilities to combine groups of files into single invocations of mv) won't be needed. They all produce one mv command for each source directory that contains files to be moved that also have an existing target directory to receive those files. If some directories have a huge number of files to be moved with names long enough to exceed ARG_MAX, the 2nd for loop can be modified to feed the list of files to be moved to xargs, but it will run a little bit slower (and depending on what operating system you're using), may have problems with filenames containing whitespace characters and may also require special processing to specify the target directory in the appropriate place in an xargs-generated mv command.