<p dir="ltr">I would recommend using rsync. It has the ability to perform a dry run and can be told what to do when it runs into things like duplicat e files. I think you may be able to leave selected file attributes in place so you can then make decisions about what to do with the filename collisions based on modified time or creation time.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 2013-06-18 11:56 AM, "R. Brent Clements" <<a href="mailto:rbclemen@gmail.com">rbclemen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<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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