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Recursively dump all sub-dirs contents?

Hi,

I have a dir structure that has many many subdirs, I would like to dump all the files from al the sub-dirs into a single directory? Can someone tell me the mv command that would do this please?

before example:
datadir/
datadir/datajan/jan.dat
datadir/datafeb/feb.dat

after example:
datadir/
datadir/datajan.dat
datadir/datafeb.dat

and so on.....

thanks in advance for any help.
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Try this....
cd upto datadir/

Code:

find . -name "*.dat" -exec cp {} /path/where/you/want/files/copied \;

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