moving many dirs /dir1/samenamedir1/files 1 level up

sjaak538 · 01-25-2012, 11:24 AM

Hi

After many google searching can't find a solution.

I have many dirs like :

/root/john/john/files
/root/jim/jim/files
/root/harry/harry/files

/root/dira/dirb/files

I like to move up the files 1 level to dira and delete the dirb.

dira does not allways have the same name as dirb.

I'm getting crazy.
Must be possible with bash script or....

Thks

TobiSGD · 01-25-2012, 11:36 AM

Code:

mv /dir1/dir2/* /dir1/
rm -r /dir1/dir2

For more info on those commands try

Code:

man mv
man rm

sjaak538 · 01-25-2012, 02:36 PM

Yes I know this but i dont like to do it for :
`ls -l|wc -l` = 1870

sjaak538 · 01-25-2012, 05:02 PM

Got it
Maybe not elegant but is works fine
Thanks

#!/bin/sh

find . -name *.html|cut -f2,3 -d/|sort|uniq > filelist
while read A
do

DIR1=`echo $A| cut -f1 -d/`
DIR2=`echo $A| cut -f2 -d/`

mv /tera3/http/"$DIR1"/"$DIR2"/* /tera3/http/"$DIR1"/
rmdir /tera3/http/"$DIR1"/"$DIR2"/
done < filelist

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