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Old 05-10-2011
Help with moving files with same names from subdirectories?
I was wondering if someone could help me with this:

I have multiple directories and subdirectories with files in them. I need to move all files from all directories and subdirectories into one root directory. However, when i do
Code:
find /home/user -mindepth 1 -iname "*" -type f -exec mv {} . \;

The command takes only 1 copy of files with the same name and ignores all other files. Ideally I would like it to rename files with same file names to something else. Like appending a number etc.

Example:
Code:
/home/user/test/setup.log
/home/user/best/setup.log

when moved to a folder should be setup.log1 setup.log2 and so on.

Any help is much appreciated
Last edited by Franklin52; 05-10-2011 at 03:26 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 05-10-2011
After finding the files, write a small if condition to check if the file is already present and rename it by appending 1 or 2 and then copyig the others...
# 3  
Old 05-10-2011
After hours of trying i managed to find a very crude way of doing this. Posting it so someone else might find it useful, or correct my script.

Code:
 find /media/perl/bin/Malco -mindepth 2 -iname "*" -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | sed -r "s/(^.*)(\s+)(.*)/rename \"\3\" \1/" > malco_rename.sh

I then execute malco_rename.sh. Don't know how to do it in the same line.

Cheers
# 4  
Old 05-10-2011
Code:
# find /somedir/ -type f
/somedir/testx/testx1/98
/somedir/testx/testx1/5
/somedir/testx/testx1/1
/somedir/testx/testx1/2
/somedir/testx/testx1/8
/somedir/testx/testx1/3
/somedir/testx/testx1/7
/somedir/testx/5
/somedir/testx/4
/somedir/testx/1
/somedir/testx/2
/somedir/testx/3
/somedir/testx/testx2/4
/somedir/testx/testx2/1
/somedir/testx/testx2/2
/somedir/testx/testx2/3

Code:
# find /somedir -type f|while read -r a ; do if [[ ! $(ls -1|grep "^${a#${a%/*}/}_*") ]] ; then \
cp -f $a .; else cp -f $a ${a#${a%/*}/}_$(echo $(ls -1|grep "^${a#${a%/*}/}_*"|wc -l)+1|bc) ; fi ; done ; ll
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 1_2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 1_3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 2_2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 2_3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 3_2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 3_3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 4_2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 5_2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 17:04 98

regards
ygemici
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