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Move all files from subdirectories to current directory?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202648312 views
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How can I move the files contained in all subdirectories to the current directory, and then remove the empty subdirectories? I found this question, but adapting the answer to: did not work; I received a lot of warnings looking like: The files contained in the subdirectories have unique names.

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mv * .

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You can also use the option: (Together with you could also limit the hierarchy levels from which to collect the files.) I used (“interactive”) to make ask before overwriting files. With a lot of subdirectories, there may be name clashes you'd like t…

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