Ubuntu – How to move all files in subdirectories recursively to a single directory

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I am trying to collect all the files under the current directory and all the subdirectories to one directory. I am trying something like the following

find -type f -exec mv {} collection/{} \;

the above command won't work because the second {} gives the full path, how can I collect all the files?

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Remove the {} from mv, mv will take it as target directory ignoring any parent directories:

find -type f -exec mv {} collection/ \;

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