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how to rename and move files according to directory names?

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2883 / 3 Years ago, tue, july 27, 2021, 1:02:53

I have bunch of directories containing the file with the same name. I want to move these files to another directory and at the same time renaming them with the directory name so that they are distinguished and are not over-written.

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All the directories are in the same directory. Destination is one directory on the system which could be anything. We read directory and read file form it and rename it exactly as the directory name and put it to the destination.

An important constraint is that the name of the file is given which will be in all of the directories. Directories might contain other files bit also the one which is given

Thanks a lot

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answered 3 Years ago ersoggles · Accepted Answer

Assuming the filename of these files are thefilename, you've cded to the directory containing these directories, and you want to move them to /path/to/dest, the following shell loop should do the trick

for file in */thefilename; do

    echo mv -iv "./$file" "/path/to/dest/${file%/*}"

done

You can run that directly in an interactive shell, or put it in a file and run it as a script.

I added an echo to make it only print the mv commands. If the output looks correct, remove the echo and run it again to have it actually do the moving.