[kwlug-disc] Need some advice/assistance on a script

[John Van Ostrand]

This is a little weird but how about this:

while true; do
  rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty *
  mv */* .
  ls -l | grep "^d" > /dev/null
  if $? = 1
    exit
  fi
done






On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> cd /your_directory
>
> # Iterate through files
> for FILE in `find . -type f`
> do
>   # Don't move the file if it is already in the root directory
>   if [ `dirname $FILE` != '.' ]; then
>     mv $FILE .
>   fi
> done
>
> # Remove the directories
> for DIR in `find . -type d`
> do
>   if [ `dirname $FILE` != '.' ]; then
>     rm -rf $DIR
>   fi
> done
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:55 AM, R. Brent Clements <rbclemen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>
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>
>
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John Van Ostrand
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