Linux – Copy all files from a directory tree into one directory

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I'm running on Windows but have Cygwin so Windows or simple Linux versions are both OK.

My camera-phone stores images in a directory tree based on date, but still appears to name each file uniquely. I want to copy all files into one directory on my PC without all the sub-dirs. How can I do this?

Copying with sub-dir structure is easy: xcopy f:\images\*.jpg C:\Users\Me\Pictures\Phone

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Try this in PowerShell:

dir f:\images -recurse -filt *.jpg | copy -dest C:\Users\Me\Pictures\Phone

Note: - This will overwrite files with the same name already in the destination even if resulting from this copy - Add a -verbose to the copy to see what is being copied.

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Linux: list contents of sub directories with given name

Combining the first two answers, use find and ls -R:

find "/Documents and settings" -name "My Documents" -exec ls -R {} \;

This will find all of the My Documents directories and list everything underneath them, with full pathnames. You need the quotes since the directory names have spaces in them.

Edit: An explination of how this works. It starts at /Documents and settings, looking for any file or directory that matches My Documents. For each one it finds, it substitutes the path for {} in the ls. The \; signifies the end of the command.

Merging all files into one folder from different folders

So in cmd you'll to have to do the below steps

D:
mkdir output
cd "D:\NBS Contents\Latest Images\"
for /r %f in ( "*.jpg" ) do copy /y "%f" "D:\output"

Step by step explaination:

D: - switches to D: drive
mkdir output - Creates output directory
cd "D:\NBS Contents\Latest Images\" - Changes current directory to the one in quotes
for /r %f in ( "*.jpg" ) do copy /y "%f" "D:\output" - Recursively, for every jpg file, copy the source file to d:\output. The /y switch suppresses Are you sure you want to overwrite prompt, you can remove the switch if you want the prompt.

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