<div dir="ltr"><div>This is a little weird but how about this:<br><br></div><div>while true; do<br></div><div> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty * <br> mv */* .<br></div><div></div><div> ls -l | grep "^d" > /dev/null<br>
</div><div> if $? = 1<br></div><div> exit<br> fi<br></div><div>done<br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">cd /your_directory<br><br># Iterate through files<br>for FILE in `find . -type f`<br>do<br> # Don't move the file if it is already in the root directory<br>
if [ `dirname $FILE` != '.' ]; then <br> mv $FILE .<br>
fi<br>done<br><br># Remove the directories<br>for DIR in `find . -type d`<br>do<br> if [ `dirname $FILE` != '.' ]; then <br> rm -rf $DIR<br> fi<br>done<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:55 AM, R. Brent Clements <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rbclemen@gmail.com" target="_blank">rbclemen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><div dir="ltr">I need to do something dramatically destructive. I want to take a large directory tree of folders, and collapse them all down to their root folder. File collisions are irrelevant. How would you guys do this? (assume for the moment that you would).<br>
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