Traverse directory list and flatten the structure

[fzssyv]

What I am looking to do is to flatten the entire directory structure and rename the files to be distinct according to a naming convention. Typically what I have to work with is:

MasterDirectory
SubDir1
File1 ... FileX
SubDir2
File1 ... FileX
etc. (for a number of subdirectories)

I need to name the files as MasterDirectory-SubDir#-File# and put them all in the MasterDirectory.

Also, for an added twist, I also need to be able to do this where there is another directory under the SubDir# as well. Thanks for any help anyone can provide me on this.

-Scott

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

Something to start with

for i in `find master -type f -print`; do mv $i master/`echo $i | sed -e 's!/!-!g'`; done

 

[nwardez]

Oops ...

Forgot to say that if you have /dir1/MasterDirectory/SubDir1 structure, run the command in /dir1