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I need to move files out from a directory inside a directory inside a directory and remove folder that I move them from. I would need a recursive script. The directory structure:

/Folder0/Alphabetic_folder/Folder_name/DeleteFolder /Folder0/A/Folder1/DeleteFolder /Folder0/B/Folder2/DeleteFolder

DeleteFolder always has the same name which is info. I would need something like:

  1. go inside directory (alphabetic)
  2. for all folders there go inside, if there is an info folder mv *.* to the current folder, remove info (that would be: mv info/* ./ && rm info)
  3. if info is not there exit folder
  4. move to the next folder

I am sure that this is a trivial problem with some script skills, but my script skill are low in this problem.

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UPD. that will work better :)

find -depth -print0 | while read -d '' -r dir; do if [[ $dir == *info ]]; then mv "$dir"/* /tmp; rmdir "$dir"; fi; done

old answer here:

#!/bin/bash cd /Folder0 for i in `ls`; do #get list of files and dirs in a folder0 if [ -d $i ]; then #if list item is a folder cd $i #then go inside (in you ex its folder A) for j in `ls`; do #list folders and files if [ -d $j ]; then #if item is folder cd $j #go inside (in your ex - Folder1) mv info/* /any_folder_you_want #it will not move files if there is an error rmdir info/ #it will not remove dir if it is not empty cd .. #(go down) fi #(go to the next folder Folder2) done; #end of folder A cd .. #go down fi #next folder B... done

You have to change part with mv and rmdir for testing that you are getting right results just put ls there and comment lines with mv and rmdir:

#mv info/* /any_folder_you_want #it will not move files if there is an error ls #rmdir info/ #it will not remove dir if it is not empty

you have to run this script outside Folder1.

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  • folders inside A,B,C with space are not affected: Folder0/A/A - copy/info Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 9:22
  • find -depth -print0 | while read -d '' -r dir; do if [[ $dir == info ]]; then mv "$dir"/ /tmp; rmdir "$dir"; fi; done Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 9:44
  • /tmp should be "$dir/../" and then it works like it should. Thanks you for the help Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 11:04
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Assuming search is for all alpha directories from the working directory:

dirs=$(find [a-z][A-Z]* -type d -name info) for f in $dirs; do echo "$f/*" done # first test it works to requirements for f in $dirs; do mv "$f/*" "$f"/..; rmdir "$f"; done # working version with mv and rmdir
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