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BlueCarrot83
BlueCarrot83

Reputation: 71

Mac Terminal command move files from subdirectory to parent

On my Mac I amm trying to move hundreds of files on my NAS drive, from a parent directory with a load of subdirectories (and possibly directories inside them) and put all of the files into one folder. They don't have the same file extension for all the files.

Is anyone able to help with the terminal command I need to do this? So far I know that find . -type f will list all the files in the directory and subdirectories but Im unsure how to tell it to get them to move them all into another folder.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6075

Answers (2)

WULF
WULF

Reputation: 347

Go inside the source parent directory and use: 

find . -type f -exec mv "$PWD"/{} <destination directory> \;

If you want to move all the files to parent directory itself, use it as the destination directory.

Upvotes: 3

BlueCarrot83
BlueCarrot83

Reputation: 71

For anyone else who may have this same issue: Ive managed to extract just the .jpg's and put them in the parent folder. 

find . -type f -iname '*.jpg' -mindepth 2 -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} mv -n '{}' .

Not quite what I wanted - I was hoping to get every single file and put it into a completely different folder if possible but this has got me further than before.

Upvotes: 3

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