copy files? 1

[mikeboz]

I would like to copy all files in a directory structure, into one level.

example::
dira contains dirb dirc file1 file2 file3
dirb contains dird file4 file5
dirc contains file6 file7
dird file8 file9

some copy command:
blah blah blah

results:
/tmp contains file1-file9

 

[unixqueen]

Hi Mikeboz,

If it is just the files that you want, you could use the find command, something like this

for file in `find dira -depth -type f`
do
move $file /tmp
done

Hope this is of some help

Regards
Queenie

 

[mikeboz]

I new it was an easy one.

Never did know what to make of -depth.

thanks, that did it.

mike