I'm using bash on Mac 10.9.5. I have PDF files in many directories, all one level from the root ...
Dir_1/abc.PDF
Dir_2/def.PDF
Dir_3/ghi.PDF
Dir_3/jkl.PDF
...
How do I write a shell command to move all these files into the "root" directory, that is make the files line up alongside the child directories ...
abc.PDF
def.PDF
ghi.PDF
Dir_1
Dir_2
Dir_3
?
Answer
How about just:
mv ./*/*.pdf .
I've done a test on my computer (zsh 5.0.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)) and it worked perfectly:
> ls -r *
sub3:
r.2 r.1
sub2:
s.2 s.1
sub1:
t.2 t.1
> mv ./*/*.pdf .
> ls
r.1 r.2 s.1 s.2 sub1 sub2 sub3 t.1 t.2
> tree
.
├── r.1
├── r.2
├── s.1
├── s.2
├── sub1
├── sub2
├── sub3
├── t.1
└── t.2
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