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Hi All,

So I have another question. I'm trying to search for files with a certain extension and then move all of them up one level in the folder hierarchy.

So something like this:
original: /path/to/file/test.txt
after: /path/to/test.txt

I had some great help recently with another issue here: and its very related

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...uppercase.html

Could someone maybe point me in the right direction?

Thank You

edit: I always forget: Solaris 10

Moderator's Comments:

Title corrected...

Anything wrong with just:

Code:

 mv *.<ext> ../.

?

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/*.*

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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

Please define the problem clearly.
How do you define files which need to move? Are there any files in the directories containing these selected files which do not move? Are there any files anywhere in the directory tree other than at the bottom of the tree? i.e. is it sufficient to just rename the bottom level directory rather than work on individual files?

Hi Methyl,

I had a lead one how to do this so I asked another question in the newbie area about the MV command and I was very graciously helped by Corona. I will post the solution here for future reference.